Sak yant — Hand Poke Letters, numbers and figures arranged into a diagram — *yant* — and pricked into skin with a long needle. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/sak-yant/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 57K
Hajichi — Hand Poke The Ryukyu Islands: marks on the backs of women's hands, outlawed by Japan in 1899 and now being put back on. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/hajichi/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Shan leg tattooing — Hand Poke The same leg work as the Burmese, carried further — to the ankles, up the back, and on the specialists who tattooed everybody else's charms. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/shan-tattooing/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 55K
The episodes — Hand Poke A ban, an expedition, a photograph, a revival — dated, and with the paper that did it where there is one. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/stories/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K
Bearing it — Hand Poke In tradition after tradition the pain is not a side effect of the mark. It is the thing being demonstrated. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/rite/the-pain/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Iban tattooing — Hand Poke Borneo: tapped designs carved on a block and printed onto the skin, with hand marks reserved for a man who had taken a head. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/iban-borneo/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 53K