{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "sulu-ape",
 "type": "person",
 "names": {
  "name": "The Sulu'ape line",
  "local": "Su'a Sulu'ape",
  "local_lang": "Samoan",
  "said": "A hereditary title, still held"
 },
 "region": [
  "oceania"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "role": "practitioner"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The Samoan master-tattooist titles, held in two families, and carried into the present by name.",
  "story": "Su'a Sulu'ape Paulo II's work and life were photographed by Mark Adams; his brother Su'a Sulu'ape Petelo works at Faleasi'u on Upolu. The titles are hereditary and the *tufuga* who hold them have tattooed Tongan and Fijian chiefly families as well as Samoan ones."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "ตำแหน่งช่างสักชั้นครูของซามัว สืบทอดในสองตระกูล และยังมีผู้ถือตำแหน่งอยู่"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "tatau",
   "as": "The practice.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-pe-a"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-pe-a"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}