Kayan tattooing — Hand Poke Upriver Borneo, where the tattooists were women and the work went on a woman's forearms, thighs and feet across years. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/kayan-borneo/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Exhibited — Hand Poke For two and a half centuries, the main way a European saw a tattooed body was on a stage, with an entrance fee. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/exhibited/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Machine — Hand Poke An electric motor drives the needle, at speeds between fifty and three thousand insertions a minute. It is here for contrast. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/method/machine/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Whose designs — Hand Poke Several traditions on this site hold that certain designs may not be worn by people who have not earned them. That rule is theirs to state and not this site's to adjudicate. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/issue/whose-designs/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Konyak marks — Hand Poke Nagaland and across the Myanmar border: chest and face marks a man received for taking a head. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/konyak-naga/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
How the word got in — Hand Poke English had no single word for the practice until Cook's crew brought one back from Polynesia. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/cook-1769/ · 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 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
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