{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "what-counts",
 "type": "issue",
 "names": {
  "name": "What counts as hand-poked",
  "said": "Tapping is not poking, and both are hands"
 },
 "region": [
  "worldwide"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "family": "none"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The site is called hand poke and half the traditions on it do not poke. Here is the line it draws and why the line is arguable.",
  "story": "A poked tattoo is driven by the hand holding the tool. A tapped one is driven by a second stick striking a hafted comb. A stitched one is sewn. A cut one is chiselled or incised and then rubbed with pigment.\n\nAll four are hand methods and none of them is a machine, which is why they are all here. But calling them all \"hand-poke\" flattens the thing each tradition is proudest of, so this site keeps them as four and says which is which on every record.\n\nThe hard cases are real. Māori *uhi* work was replaced by needle work in the nineteenth century and the tradition kept its name. Modern professional hand-poke uses a cartridge needle in a stabiliser pen, which is a tool with a handle and a grip and no motor. **A reader who would draw the line somewhere else is looking at the same field on the same records and can re-sort it.**"
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "เว็บนี้ชื่อว่าสักด้วยมือ แต่ครึ่งหนึ่งของธรรมเนียมบนนี้ไม่ได้แทง นี่คือเส้นที่ลากไว้ และเหตุผลว่าทำไมเส้นนี้เถียงได้"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "poke",
   "as": "One.",
   "rel": "method"
  },
  {
   "to": "tap",
   "as": "Two.",
   "rel": "method"
  },
  {
   "to": "stitch",
   "as": "Three.",
   "rel": "method"
  },
  {
   "to": "cut",
   "as": "Four.",
   "rel": "method"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-batok",
  "s:wp-t-moko",
  "s:wp-stick-and-poke"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "inference"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "start-here"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "stick-and-poke",
   "type": "tradition",
   "name": "Stick and poke",
   "as": "And the question that gets asked about it."
  },
  {
   "from": "poke",
   "type": "method",
   "name": "Poke",
   "as": "Where the line between them stops being clear."
  }
 ]
}