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
Patutiki — Hand Poke The Marquesas: coverage so complete that Willowdean Handy's 1922 survey had to be drawn panel by panel to record it. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/marquesan-patutiki/ · 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
Chinchorro Mo-1 T28 C22 — Hand Poke A mummified man from the Chilean coast with a dotted line tattooed above his upper lip — the oldest tattoo yet found in the Americas. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/find/chinchorro-man/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
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
The Qilakitsoq women — สักด้วยมือ มัมมี่หญิงชาวอินูอิตจากกรีนแลนด์ตะวันตกเฉียงเหนือ อายุห้าศตวรรษ มีรอยสักบนใบหน้าที่เห็นได้ด้วยอินฟราเรด nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/th/find/qilakitsoq/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 53K