ธรรมเนียมการสักTā moko

tā moko · Māori

Carved with a chisel, leaving a groove rather than a smooth surface

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ราว ค.ศ. 1,500 – ค.ศ. 2,026 · Men's moko stopped about 1860; women's continued; revived from 1990

-38.5000, 176.0000 · OpenStreetMap

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นิวซีแลนด์ สิ่วกระดูกนกอัลบาทรอสตอกด้วยค้อน ทิ้งร่องไว้บนผิวหนัง ไม่ใช่เพียงสี

ฉบับยาว

Tā moko is not a puncture. The uhi — a hafted chisel of albatross bone — is struck, and the skin keeps the furrow. That is why a moko reads in raking light and why a photograph flattens it.

Pigment: awheto, a caterpillar fungus, for the body; ngarehu, burnt timber, for the darker face colour; soot from burnt kauri gum mixed with fat. It was kept in carved vessels called oko which were buried between uses and handed down.

Steel needles arrived with Europeans and were faster and safer, and the groove went. Men's moko had largely stopped by the 1860s; women kept receiving moko kauae into the twentieth century, and Michael King interviewed more than seventy women in the early 1970s who had been marked before the Tohunga Suppression Act of 1907. Since 1990 the practice has come back, machine mostly, chisel too, with women among the practitioners — and a Māori foreign minister and a prime-time news anchor wearing moko kauae on the country's screens.

เกี่ยวข้องกับ

• Uhi The chisel.
• กรีด The method.
• Tatau The neighbouring Pacific tradition that taps instead of cutting.

ถูกอ้างถึงโดย

• กรีด The tradition built on it.
• Uhi What it makes.
• Awheto and ngarehu Where it goes.
• Moko kauae The tradition it belongs to.
• The Tohunga Suppression Act What it caught.

• Tā moko

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