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 painted ones — Hand Poke Spain called the Visayans *Pintados*, the painted ones, described their tattoos in detail, and converted them out of the practice within two centuries. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/pintados/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
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
Amazigh marks — Hand Poke North Africa: women's chin, forehead and hand marks, in a geometric vocabulary shared with weaving and pottery. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/amazigh-marks/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Whang-od Oggay — Hand Poke The Kalinga *mambabatok* everyone has heard of, tapping in Buscalan since she was about fifteen. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/person/whang-od/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Where the marks go — Hand Poke Each tradition here records which zones of the body it marks. Counted together, the zones sort into two kinds. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/body/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Cut — Hand Poke The skin is cut or chiselled and pigment is rubbed into the cut, so the mark has a texture as well as a colour. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/method/cut/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Sak Yant Chiang Mai — Hand Poke The Chiang Mai operation that publishes the profile of every master it works with — teacher, temple, family line, years in the robe and out. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/org/sak-yant-chiang-mai/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Wat Phumin — Hand Poke The temple in Nan whose nineteenth-century murals show northern men with their legs and torsos marked. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/place/wat-phumin/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Derung face marks — Hand Poke Yunnan: Derung women marked on the face at twelve or thirteen, in a tradition now carried by a handful of elders. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/derung-face/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
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