{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "marquesan-patutiki",
 "type": "tradition",
 "names": {
  "name": "Patutiki",
  "local": "patu tiki",
  "local_lang": "Marquesan",
  "said": "To strike the image"
 },
 "region": [
  "oceania"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "family": "tap",
  "status": "revived"
 },
 "when": {
  "from": 1500,
  "to": 2026,
  "circa": true,
  "label": "Suppressed by mission and administration; documented by Handy in 1922, revived since the 1980s"
 },
 "practice": {
  "method": "tap",
  "ink": "soot-water",
  "placement": [
   "whole-body",
   "face",
   "legs",
   "hands"
  ],
  "marked": "both",
  "marks": "specialist",
  "status": "revived",
  "countries": [
   "PF"
  ],
  "first_record": 1922,
  "break": [
   1900,
   1980
  ],
  "revived": 1980,
  "suppressed_by": "French administration and Catholic mission",
  "note": "The densest body coverage recorded anywhere in the Pacific."
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The Marquesas: coverage so complete that Willowdean Handy's 1922 survey had to be drawn panel by panel to record it.",
  "story": "Handy's *Tattooing in the Marquesas* is a Bishop Museum bulletin, out of copyright, and it is a catalogue of motifs recorded when very few marked people were left. The name says the method: *patu tiki*, to strike the image."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "หมู่เกาะมาร์เคซัส ลายคลุมตัวหนาแน่นที่สุดเท่าที่บันทึกไว้ในแปซิฟิก"
 },
 "links": [
  {
   "label": "Marquesas Islands",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesas_Islands"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:handy-marquesas",
  "s:wp-marquesas-islands"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:handy-marquesas"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tags": [
  "revival",
  "colonial-record"
 ],
 "geo": {
  "lat": -9.8,
  "lon": -139.05,
  "precision": "region",
  "source": "s:commons"
 },
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}