The depictions — Hand Poke Murals, plates, figurines and photographs — what a picture of a tattoo is evidence of, and what it is not. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/depictions/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Japan outlaws it — Hand Poke Japan banned tattooing while presenting itself to the world, and foreigners immediately travelled there to be tattooed. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/meiji-ban/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The open questions — Hand Poke Questions this site cannot settle: whose designs, whose hands, whose photographs, and what counts as hand-poked at all. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/questions/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Tā moko — Hand Poke New Zealand: albatross-bone chisels struck with a mallet, cutting a groove that stays visible as texture, not only as colour. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/ta-moko/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K
Ötzi — Hand Poke The Alpine body with sixty-one tattoos — nineteen groups of black lines, and the greatest concentration on the legs. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/find/otzi/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Veiqia — Hand Poke Fiji: girls marked at puberty by older women called *dauveiqia*, paid in tapa cloth and whale teeth. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/veiqia/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
batok — Hand Poke From Proto-Austronesian *beCik, tattoo, with relatives *patik, mottled, and *burik, speckled — the word for a pattern, applied to skin, cloth and pot alike. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/batok-word/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
Where — Hand Poke Where — Hand Poke nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/body/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K