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
The photographs — Hand Poke The free pictures of tattooed bodies are mostly colonial-era photographs of people who did not choose to be photographed, or sideshow portraits made to be sold. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/issue/the-photographs/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
tua mueang — Hand Poke The northern letters — Tai Tham script, the script of the region's manuscripts and of the yant that go on northern skin. Khom is the central convention, not the northern one. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/tua-mueang/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The instruments — Hand Poke Brass rods, bamboo splints, boar tusk combs, thorn bundles and bone needles — what they are made of and how long they are. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tools/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Mandalay — Hand Poke Upper Burma's capital until 1885, and the centre of the country whose men were, in Shway Yoe's account, all tattooed. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/place/mandalay/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Gisi and pat-ik — Hand Poke A citrus thorn — or a bundle of them — lashed at a right angle to a short stick, tapped by a second stick. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tool/gisi-pat-ik/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Four hands — Hand Poke Four hands — Hand Poke nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/methods/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 56K
Who wrote it down — Hand Poke Most of what is known about the stopped traditions was written by the people whose arrival stopped them. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/issue/who-wrote-it-down/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Tatau — Hand Poke Samoa: a comb of bone and turtle shell, struck with a mallet, covering a man from the middle of the back to the knees. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/tatau/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K
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