{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "tohunga-act",
 "type": "story",
 "names": {
  "name": "The Tohunga Suppression Act",
  "said": "New Zealand, 1907"
 },
 "region": [
  "oceania"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "era": "colonial"
 },
 "when": {
  "from": 1907,
  "to": 1962,
  "label": "In force until 1962"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A New Zealand statute aimed at Māori specialists, which caught tā moko along with everything else a tohunga did.",
  "story": "Michael King interviewed more than seventy elderly women in the early 1970s who had received *moko kauae* before the Act. That interview list is the bridge: the practice was not remembered from books when it came back in the 1990s. It was remembered from faces."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "กฎหมายนิวซีแลนด์ที่มุ่งเป้าผู้เชี่ยวชาญชาวเมารี และกวาดเอาตาโมโกไปด้วย"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "ta-moko",
   "as": "What it caught.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-t-moko"
 ],
 "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",
 "tags": [
  "ban"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}