traditionPatutiki
patu tiki · Marquesan
To strike the image
| Where it goes | whole body, face, legs, hands |
|---|---|
| Stopped by | French administration and Catholic mission |
| Notes | The densest body coverage recorded anywhere in the Pacific. |
| Ink | Soot and water |
| Years between | 1900–1980 (80) |
about 1,500 – 2,026 · Suppressed by mission and administration; documented by Handy in 1922, revived since the 1980s
-9.8000, -139.0500 · OpenStreetMap
What it is
The Marquesas: coverage so complete that Willowdean Handy's 1922 survey had to be drawn panel by panel to record it.
The long version
Handy's Tattooing in the Marquesas is a Bishop Museum bulletin, out of copyright, and it is a catalogue of motifs recorded when very few marked people were left. The name says the method: patu tiki, to strike the image.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Tattooing in the Marquesas — scanned by the Internet Archive | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Tattooing in the Marquesas — scanned by the Internet Archive
- Marquesas Islands — 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