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
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
The Cordilleran mummies — Hand Poke Mummified Cordilleran people in cave and hanging-coffin burials, tattooed, with the designs also carved on the coffins. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/find/cordilleran-mummies/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Hlai women's marks — Hand Poke Hainan: Hlai women marked on face, throat, arms and legs in patterns that told one lineage from another. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/hlai-marks/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Cats and monkeys — Hand Poke The two commonest figures on a Burmese thigh, named in the same breath as tigers and elephants. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/motif/cat-monkey/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
The Qilakitsoq women — Hand Poke Mummified Inuit women from north-west Greenland, five centuries old, with facial tattoos visible under infrared. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/find/qilakitsoq/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
What counts as hand-poked — Hand Poke The site is called hand poke and half the traditions on it do not poke. Here is the line it draws and why the line is arguable. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/issue/what-counts/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K