Tattoos - Traditional Tattoo Artists at Work

[blackaryan]

bro stay off the P

[JadeForrest213]

Our Culture, Language, moko and even people were all most wiped out by Pakeha. But now everything is being revived! Samoan tatau artist help bring back the old way and big ups to them, helpin the cuzys out! But still moko is maori and tatau is samoan. So everyone stop say dumb stuff and those dump rascist maori dont be rascist!! Far Poly up

[JadeForrest213]

Yes the method of samoan Tatau has been solid for 2000 years. But our kaumatua had there way to which was Maori. our moko has legend and the maori were isolated so thats why it abit different.

[JadeForrest213]

Far does anyone know for sure where us Maori come from? Staright from asia or Samoa or hawaii or could it be rapanui or Tahiti?? We say hawaiki but no one knows where it is! If anyone has proof (which no one does!) show it or shut the hell up. Everyone knows us polys are all connected. we all came from asia somewhere at some time. If anyone knows who started tattooin 1st show some proof or shut the hell up. Maybe we brought tattooin from asia?? Who Knows!!

[blackaryan]

where do maori come from ?we come from here.wez my proof?just study your history and all will be revealed.dont believe european taught knowledge cause its all shit..you dont come from asia,asia comes from polynesians.if we came from them how the fuck did we get so much bigger than them.the polynesian triangle is the garden of eden in the bible,and god put us here in the beginning,hidden from the wicked corrupt (europea)man-devil.but now the devils here and thats why everythinngs fucked up!!

[mkopua]

One does try lady whether taught by master or self? My case is I don't want title. You seem to think the whole tattoo world revolves round Samoan tatau? I am not as narrow minded as that. If you have not seen ANY Maori main tooling an uhi yet, then you're not looking hard enough?!

In any case I agree, Samoan are a credit when it comes to maintaining this tradition and many others, but dissing Maori Moko by comparing it with Tatau?? That's not a credit to Samoan art maintenance.

[DownHilll]

if thats all you can say then i believe you have wasted everyone's time with your bullshit comment. you cant even put up a decent debate let alone an intelligent one. oh by the way, it was an old maori man, who said that about South America. this is very disappointing. you have a very different view compared to the old man's. hahaha, like i said, your people have their truth twisted. which is why, all of your stories, are not only full of shit, but different. i'm 1/2 white, & more poly than you.

[samoa1slander]

you (tinorangatiratanga1) really don't know what you are talking about. Your ignorance is laughable.

[DownHilll]

and this was taught to you by whom boy?! your ancestors? well your ancestors have their "truth" twisted you faka! we samoans have far outlived your people! rapanui? HA! as far as im concern your ancestors descend from SOUTH AMERICA! and where in the bloody hell did you get your timelines?! 5000ad? why dont you try bc?! dont just throw in a bullshit calculation with no confirmation/proof! might as well just throw in a towel instead you faka!!!

[samoa1slander]

lol you're a dumb cunt. We Samoans were tatauing before you even settled aotearoa. lol and You maoris descend from us Samoans. lol You really need to learn your history boi.

[DownHilll]

oh? is that something passed down to u from someone? sorry to bust your bubble friend, but that someone lied. even with all your fancy words, you cannot claim what is not yours. the method of the tatau on this video, is, and will always be samoa's. now suddenly the maori wishes to claim even the word "tatau" and worse, that it belongs to all of polynesia. well, have it. truth or not, the fact remains the same. the world sees the word "tattoo" as an english replacement of the samoan word "tatau".

[wilmitw]

This style of performing tatau was synonymous through out Polynesia... not just Samoa.

[wilmitw]

And so it is. Today the Moko/Ta Moko gives a light, not literally, yet it is a form of enlightenment (maramatanga). It let's one identify with his/her ancestors and where the bearer/wearer of such markings is placed in the scheme of all things unique and significant to them. Kia ora tatou.

[wilmitw]

the term Moko is derived from the stone that was tapped to etch the tatau into the skin. The Moko stone was used by the great navigators of Polynesia. It was known to glow or give off light and was used to allow for the migrating canoes to perform activities normally restricted to daylight hours, to be carried out at night,or where there was no light, even beneath the waves......(Cont'd)

[wilmitw]

As the white man came into the south pacific during the days of our ancestors, they saw the patterns/designs/tatau on the bodies of the people. They (the white man)enquired of the people what the designs were called. The white man, altered the pronounciation to suit his own linguistic tongue, and from that day to this, the word tattoo has been used. As for the Maori Moko. It wasn't known as the Moko,it was known as tatau. However...(cont'd)

[wilmitw]

Tatau is not a term relegated to just the Samoan people. The term tatau was used right across polynesia. It was as common as counting from 1 to 4, and how similar is that between polynesians? The modern day terminology ("tattoo") is derived from the word tatau.

[1tatau]

term "tatau" used by samoans while populating the south pacific and naming the new found lands after there home land(s) like the once "aotearoa" "Hawai'i" "Tahiti" "Tonga". it does not mean to tattoo although that is what it might imply today: Ta tau simply means to reach a desired point or status or sense of completion.

[getnathan]

more on inia in my videos section. i'd post a liunk, but it wont let me..

[samoa66]

dats the samoan way of doing tatoos not the maori samoan traditional way called the TATAU or PEA i know i am samoan

[mkopua]

the traditional taptap method is a pacific tradition and not just confined to Samoa. The difference being is that the method never stopped in Samoa like it did in Aotearoa. We're back now doing Moko with traditional tools again and its no different to how it was done years ago...

[1tatau]

how is it not different from then? everyone knows it ceased to be practiced, i doubt they where using machines back then like they are reviving it now. traditional tools? like the ones taught to Inia by Paulo Suluape, did i mention he was Samoan? therefore what he is practicing is Samoan not maori. If the white man invented the car and everyone rode in it, it is still the white mans car.

[samoa1slander]

1tatau- Yes, we all know us Samoans were the ones who have the unbroken tradition of tatau and that our Tufuga helped teach this tradition to those others in polynesia that lost it due to colonisation. but perhaps there are enough similarities between the cultures that this tradition can "perhaps" be viewed as "shared"?

We sailed the seas and they are our distant relatives. Not all Maori are ignorant racists. Some do acknowledge our connections & those have my blessing.

[1tatau]

god bless you uso, even in the most of ignorance, you see truth, that truth we no longer share with those who have lost there ways, we see there curse in all they try to revive and claim to be theres. But in doing so, they are envious of cultures like ours wich reflect what they always longed for, and that is a sense of their(lost past). Ia manuia fuafuaga

[DownHilll]

1tatau, that was very deep. maybe i was wrong to believe that the method of the tatau belonged to us, and ONLY us. perhaps samoa1islander is right about our traditional method being viewed as "shared". but honestly uso, the maori's suddenly say "tatau" is everyone's, and their "ta moko" is theirs only, is simply proposterious! God bless you both, but the maori are a jealous people, and currently hard to forgive! manuia le aso.

[blackaryan]

thanks uso thats a great statement ,fair and true,kia ora to you

[mkopua]

I practice this myself - Ive seen tatau - Paulo, Petelo - Ive tried their way of tapping . How I tap, is different. Those tufuga never taught me what I do. I use both machine and uhi. Inia is not the single rep of Maori Moko.

How is it different??? Look at a hao and the uhi. They even look different. I can tell you from experience that although I do not tap how the Samoan experts do.