The tattoo is clothing — Hand Poke Sources in Burmese, Northern Thai, Spanish and Samoan — and a Cordilleran rule recorded in English — reach for the same comparison: the tattoo is not on the body, it is what the… nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/clothing/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K
The murals — Hand Poke Northern temple walls carry men with marked legs and torsos, painted by people who saw them daily. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/art/murals/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Clothing — Hand Poke Clothing — Hand Poke nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/clothing/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 53K
Cordilleran whatok — Hand Poke The Cordillera mountains of northern Luzon, where Spanish rule never reached and the tattooing was never interrupted. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/kalinga-cordillera/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 53K
Sak kha lai — Hand Poke The Lanna leg tattoo: waist to knee, sometimes to the ankle, dense enough that the murals paint it as a pair of black trousers. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/sak-kha-lai/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 58K
Buscalan — Hand Poke The village in the Kalinga highlands where batok is still tapped, and where the visitors go. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/place/buscalan/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
wichaa.net — Hand Poke The manuscript corpus and knowledge hub this site's Lanna material comes out of, and where its companion page lives. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/org/wichaa/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
Lek char — Hand Poke The northern instrument: an iron stylus of the kind used to incise palm-leaf manuscripts, taken to skin. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tool/lek-char/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 53K
The words — Hand Poke The word each tradition uses, and what it means before it means tattoo. Most of them mean prick, strike or write. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/terms/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K
The depictions — Hand Poke Murals, plates, figurines and photographs — what a picture of a tattoo is evidence of, and what it is not. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/depictions/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
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