The murals — Hand Poke Northern temple walls carry men with marked legs and torsos, painted by people who saw them daily. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/art/murals/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Clothing — Hand Poke Clothing — Hand Poke nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/clothing/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 53K
Cordilleran whatok — Hand Poke The Cordillera mountains of northern Luzon, where Spanish rule never reached and the tattooing was never interrupted. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/kalinga-cordillera/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 53K
Ajarn Dang and Ajarn Sak — Hand Poke Two of the Chiang Mai masters whose published profiles give a teacher, a temple, and a count of years in and out of the robe. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/person/ajarn-dang-sak/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Who gets written about — Hand Poke Every tradition on this site that has a Wikipedia article, ranked by how many languages wrote one. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/coverage/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Poke — Hand Poke A point held in the hand and pushed into the skin, once per mark, with the pigment carried on or into the hole. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/method/poke/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Lampblack — Hand Poke Soot collected from a lamp, mixed with water as it is needed. Under the skin it reads blue-black, and it does not leave. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/ink/lampblack/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Shway Yoe — Hand Poke The Scottish administrator who wrote the fullest English description of Burmese tattooing, under a Burmese pen name, in 1882. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/person/shway-yoe/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
The leg-tattoo zone — Hand Poke One custom, four peoples, and a boundary that runs through the middle of modern Thailand rather than along its edge. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/legs/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K
Stopped, and started again — Hand Poke Several traditions here stopped and came back. Where both ends are datable, this site subtracts them and prints the gap. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/revival/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
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