Toetu‘u, who apprenticed under Su‘a’s father Su‘a Alaiva‘a, points out that “Maui bears ‘Neo-Polynesian Tribal’ tattoos, which is a contemporary style that began in the late 1990s ...

Leo Zulueta tattoos three frigate birds, a stylized version of a Polynesian tribal motif, on the arm of Adrien Comolet, at Spiral Tattoo in Ann Arbor. "I'm somewhere else in my head right now.