Intro

I will spare everyone the time about copy/pasting, paraphrasing or any other way of reproducing all the information from the Web about the Maori Tattoos, AKA Tā Moko. Here are the best sites to find any information suitable to the topic.

• Wikipedia Entry: Tā Moko
• 100% New Zealand
• Moko Ink

Still, let me point out some broad strokes: Tā Moko is not really what we nowadays call tattoos. These are punctured on the skin, while Tā Moko are carved on it. These pieces of body marking, originals from New Zealand's Maoris were a shock for the European invaders since the first view. In this piece of reasearch I'm about to try to find out some more about them, please join me in this trip.

This Research Project is structured in 3 different parts:

1. Scrapbook
2. Interview with a tattoo artist
3. Sketching a tattoo

Tā Moko