episodeThe Tohunga Suppression Act
New Zealand, 1907
1,907 – 1,962 · In force until 1962
What it is
A New Zealand statute aimed at Māori specialists, which caught tā moko along with everything else a tohunga did.
The long version
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.
Connected to
- Tā moko What it caught.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Tā moko — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Tā moko — 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