“The moko you see is that person’s genealogy and achievements, and the whole design ends up becoming a treasure for that individual’s family,” Karaitiana Taiuru, an expert on Maori knowledge and ...

The Maori have a centuries-old tradition of tā moko, their distinct body mod tattooing On tonight’s Needles and Pins on VICELAND, we travel to New Zealand with British body modification artist Grace ...

With a little ink, some stinging pain and a helping hand from the ancestors, Mark Kopua can heal a wounded soul. He is a modern master of an ancient art called ta moko, one of the world's oldest forms ...

Arekatera “Katz” Maihi can vividly recall the sickening stench of smoke and harrowing echo of family members’ cries as his tribal house in Auckland, New Zealand, went up in flames in the middle of the ...

A woman from New Zealand is facing backlash after photos of her chin tattoo began making waves earlier this week. Sally Anderson, a life coach, reportedly got the tattoo as an homage to New Zealand's ...

A high-profile newsreader in New Zealand has publicly slapped down an irate viewer who had repeatedly complained about her traditional face tattoo. In 2021, Newshub presenter Oriini Kaipara became the ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - On Christmas Day, veteran New Zealand journalist Oriini Kaipara made history. She is her country’s first news anchor to host a national primetime broadcast sporting ...

Meet the Explorer: Taryn Beri is an independent tā moko practitioner in Wellington and a member of the Ngāti Toarangatira tribe of the Wellington Region, North Island, Aotearoa, New Zealand. The ...

LOS ANGELES, July 12 (UPI) --Guy Pearce said his new movie The Convert, in theaters and video-on-demand Friday, made a permanent impact on him as he got Maori tattoos from the film's Maori tattoo ...

America is in the middle of a tattoo craze. Forty percent of Americans aged 26 to 40 have been tattooed. More than a third of Americans 18 to 25 have already been inked somewhere — sometimes in ways ...

Henare (Henry) Brooking is a ta moko artist and teacher at the Eastern Institute of Technologies Toihoukura Maori Visual Arts School in Gisborne, New Zealand. The tattoo artist is one of the many ...