{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "cut",
 "type": "method",
 "names": {
  "name": "Cut",
  "th": "กรีด",
  "said": "An incision, and pigment rubbed into it"
 },
 "region": [
  "worldwide"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "family": "cut"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The skin is cut or chiselled and pigment is rubbed into the cut, so the mark has a texture as well as a colour.",
  "story": "Māori *tā moko* is the clearest case: the *uhi*, a hafted chisel of albatross bone, is struck with a mallet and the skin keeps a groove. A moko made this way catches light. A moko made with a needle does not, which is exactly what changed when steel arrived — and why some practitioners have taken the chisel up again.\n\nThe Ainu word *anchi-piri* names obsidian and a cut. Among the Lumad and Negrito peoples of the Philippines a hafted chisel incises the skin in short dashes, and the result is partly scarification.",
  "notes": "Cutting shades into scarification, which is a different practice with a different point. The test used here: if pigment is put into the wound to be seen afterwards, it is on this site."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "กรีดหรือสกัดผิวหนังแล้วถูสีลงในรอย รอยที่ได้จึงมีทั้งสีและพื้นผิว"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "ta-moko",
   "as": "The tradition built on it.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "to": "uhi",
   "as": "The chisel.",
   "rel": "tool"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-t-moko",
  "s:wp-batok",
  "s:wp-scarification"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-t-moko"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "ainu-anchi-piri",
   "type": "tradition",
   "name": "Ainu anchi-piri",
   "as": "The method — a cut rubbed with pigment, not a puncture."
  },
  {
   "from": "ta-moko",
   "type": "tradition",
   "name": "Tā moko",
   "as": "The method."
  },
  {
   "from": "uhi",
   "type": "tool",
   "name": "Uhi",
   "as": "The method."
  },
  {
   "from": "what-counts",
   "type": "issue",
   "name": "What counts as hand-poked",
   "as": "Four."
  }
 ]
}