personThe Sulu'ape line
Su'a Sulu'ape · Samoan
A hereditary title, still held
What it is
The Samoan master-tattooist titles, held in two families, and carried into the present by name.
The long version
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.
Connected to
- Tatau The practice.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Peʻa — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Peʻa — Wikipedia (en)
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