SKIN STORIES tattoo info

Match the following

• malu

• 
• pe'a

• 
• malu

• Protection, shelter

• peʻa

• 
• mautofu

• 

Match the following

The traditional art of tattooing...

• (men's face tattoos) stopped about 80 years ago.

• In Aotearoa

• Never stopped, it has been practiced for over 2,000 years

• In Hawaiʻi

• stopped for about 200 years.

• In Sāmoa

In Sāmoa, when a tattoo is complete the wearer could go into the clean ocean to start the healing process.​ ​ ​ (a)  

• true
• False

"Spilling of blood" in the Sāmoan section refers to:

• a person dying from getting a tattoo because of blood-loss

• It comes from the bible, it is the reason that there is conflict between church & culture

• it refers to getting a disease or sickness from using dirty tattoo chisels

• the genealogy of tattoo artists

​ (a)   and ​ (b)   ​ wood were used to make the Sāmoan tattooing chisels.

• Boar tusks
• mautofu
• kauila
• whale teeth/palaoa

Match the following

• moko kauwae

• 
• horo

• "tattoo" in Māori

• pūhoro

• "speed" "run" "move fast" in Māori

• moko

• "chin" in Māori

• kauwae

• 

Why did Māori men stop tattooing their faces?

Match the following vocabulary words:

• a tattoo made with chisels

• uhi

• tooth, triangle

• kākau

• tattooing chisels

• uhi

• a tattoo, any tattoo

• kākau

• write, to write

• niho

A long genealogy tattoo on the inside of legs that is only for women is the​ (a)   .

The long genealogy tattoo on the outside of the leg is the ​ (b)   for women or men.

• ala maʻi
• ala niho
• niho manō
• ala polohiwa a Kāne

Why did traditional Hawaiian tattooing stop?

• Denationalization: when a country erases the history and culture on another country.

• Colonization: when other "people" settle in a new place and start to set up their way of life impacting the native people.

• Conflicts with Christianity and Hawaiian culture.

• The desire of people to be more "acceptable" in the new way of life that was being set up in Hawaiʻi.