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
Ainu anchi-piri — Hand Poke Hokkaido and Sakhalin: a woman's mouth ringed with indigo, begun in childhood and widened until she was ready to marry. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/ainu-anchi-piri/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 53K
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
Hnitkwasok — Hand Poke A brass rod about two feet long, weighted at the top with a cast figure, with a split four-way point at the other end. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tool/hnitkwasok/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K