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The map

One dot per tradition, placed at a point that stands for where it was practised — not a boundary, and not a claim about who lives there now.

Tā moko — cutVeiqia — tapTatau — tapPatutiki — tapMentawai titi — tapIban tattooing — tapKayan tattooing — tapSak yant — pokeBatok — tapCordilleran whatok — tapSak kha lai — pokeHlai women's marks — pokeShan leg tattooing — pokeChin facial tattooing — pokeHtoe kwin — pokeGodna — pokeAtayal ptasan — pokeHajichi — pokeKonyak marks — pokeDerung face marks — pokeAmazigh marks — pokeThe pilgrim's cross — mixedIrezumi — pokeDeq — pokeAinu anchi-piri — cutSicanje — pokeStick and poke — pokeKakiniit — stitch

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Mainland Southeast Asia 3

Lanna and the Shan States 2

Island Southeast Asia 5

East Asia 6

South Asia 2

Oceania 4

The Arctic 1

Europe 1

West Asia 2

North Africa 1

Everywhere 1

The zone map

The one map on this site that no source drew: the leg-tattoo zone, across three modern countries. The leg zone