Tattoo - Amazing Tribal Arts 2 of 6

[KeithGordon55555]

My people, the Polynesians found America before Columbus, and the Vikings. So who is really the savage?

[DooReign]

fuck a papa

[hamkinnes]

@DooReign yeah in new zealand we swear at teachers and just tell them we speaking Maori but we are still respectful to our culture as a Maori

[hurleyOC]

no one in the world has moko lol go to el salvador those dudes have ink all over there facees, sorry buddy ur not the only one who does that

[bmonz08]

@hurleyOC bro you don't even know wtf ur talking about! Moko is an ancient art form that's been practiced for hundreds of years! The people from el salvador have only just begun to tattoo their faces in an effort to look like hardened gangsters!! Regardless of what you think, MOKO is definately unique to Maori.. There is no other culture in the world with the same designs! Numbers and letters do not count as MOKO.. fool.

[bmonz08]

@hurleyOC.. And another thing.. New Zealand gangs, like the Mongrel Mob who have been around since the early 60's were tattoing their faces long before MS13 even existed! In some chapters/clicks it was an initiation process where gang members had to get what they called a MASK.. this was facial tattoing that consisted of a mix of traditional moko with their gang insignia. MS13 may have tattoo'd themselves with various scribbles but a MOKO is a specific design with meaning!! Not just for show!!!

[DevilKeyz]

@bmonz08 Mongrel mobs are ashame to our maori people, they are wearing swastika's along with ta moko...

[bmonz08]

@DevilKeyz.. they arn't ta moko, if it don't mean shit.. its just another tatt!! Mobsters knw that themselves so don't be preaching to me lol.

[DevilKeyz]

@bmonz08 yea, but the fact they are putting it with the tamoko, putting british bull dogs by tamoko is disgraceful.. i ain't preachin' no shit, im just stating, it maybe another tatt, but in the eyes of their ancestors its a disgrace.

[bmonz08]

@DevilKeyz.. I don't disagree with the disrespect and offence it causes to our Maoritanga.. non the less we must remember it's all apart of the times. It wasn't always easy for some of the youngsters of the 60/70's who were uprooted from their rural self sustaining communitites and thrown into oppressive urban societies where they were classed as scum from the get go. Loss of cultural identity was a major factor and in fact the gangs are partly to thank for the survival of moko today!

[bmonz08]

@bmonz08.. If you take notice of the trends over the past 50years, moko became almost extinct. Modern Maori were too timid to get moko as it was shunned upon by NZ society as an outdated art form of a once savage race. Too few young men were interested and there were not many kaumatua left who had them. The mob used it as a way of holding on2 some sort of cultural identity while at the same time defying the norm within NZ society! Today most ppl only use tamoko as fashion statements!!!

[5150Revolutionary]

@bmonz08 i disagree about the maori being savage, if anyone on the planet were savages it was the white colonials.

[DevilKeyz]

@bmonz08 yea.. i wouldn't really know since i grew up in a little ass town with just Rasta Maori lol

[hineauahi]

@bmonz08 exactly how are gangs partly to thank for the survival of moko today?

[pHaZe017]

thats a samoan tatau if i ever saw one. at least he got the whole right of passage into adulthood and honoring your dad part right, cant say the same for maori pronounciation tho.

[stutterthepimp]

the bad thing bout he didn't say nutting bout samoan still using this

[amui4688]

ok..it is a great docu only thing is that they confused the samoan tatau as being a hawaiian form of ancient tattoo.... the two have very significant designs

[EishinRyu]

@amui4688 Well spotted but perhaps they are just referring to the fact that most Polynesian islander cultures share a common cultural heritage hence the similar styles of tattoo? Only my observation

[Thunda1986]

man they are some ugly maoris

[mazafuzle]

5:34 SAY WHAT!!!

[MrSole1994]

pe'a is samoan,why is a hawaiian guy getting it?

se ua ova kele le fia samoa ga kamaloa

at that dude sadi hongi wrong

[Thunda1986]

@MrSole1994 he pronounced it all wrong

[nakoma3]

its not fuck a papa its whakapapa bro its family tree cuz

[Vavauboi]

that dude aisea , i played rugby with him, mean tokoua

[knpdyeballarice]

my native american tribe does facial tattoos, 3 lines on the chin

[ActaSanctorum]

@knpdyeballarice what tribe? female chin lines are almost universal (which is pretty cool)

[knpdyeballarice]

@ActaSanctorum yurok

[williameva]

polynesians are all from taiwan. and the taiwanese(not chinese) have facial tattoos too until the japanese banned them

[nNorthWestern]

@williameva the dna map is not very clear yet, all it shows is that they have common ancestry 10000-20000 years ago and share same migration routes but it doesnt mean they all came from taiwan

[NETrevgadget]

whakapapa sounded like fuck a papa...

[OmGiTzNiCk]

i lol'd

[DazzAwhi]

New Zealand people call it Ta Moko, but i love this documentary it's awesome. If you want to know more about Ta Moko read Mau Moko...

[daddysgirl4u2c]

HE SAID PE'A...thats samoan..not hawaiian....

[LaLasTrybe]

thanx 4sharing some of our polynesian traditions with the world the way u did! loved the video. i watched it with my sons..they loved it too!

[BlarneyMedia]

amazing documentary