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designMoko kauae

Femme Maori (Maori Woman) with tattoo on chinNon identifié/Unknown · Public domain
Where it goeschin, face
Earnedyes

What it is

The Māori chin marking worn by women.

The long version

Michael King interviewed more than seventy women in the 1970s who had received it before 1907. Since the 1990s it has been worn by a foreign minister and a prime-time news anchor, which is a change in where the mark is allowed to be seen rather than in the mark.

Connected to

Where each claim comes from
FieldTierSourceNote
defaultcitedTā moko — Wikipedia (en)
text_thinferencewritten in Thai by this project, not machine-translated

Sources

cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there

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