kakiniq — Hand Poke From the Proto-Inuit-Yupik root *kaki-, to pierce or prick — the same root across Iñupiaq, Inuktitut, West Greenlandic and Tunumiit. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/kakiniq/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
The Tohunga Suppression Act — Hand Poke A New Zealand statute aimed at Māori specialists, which caught tā moko along with everything else a tohunga did. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/tohunga-act/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
Indigo — Hand Poke Pigment from the indigo plant, used by the Ainu and reported for the blue lines on Chin women's faces. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/ink/indigo/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
Awheto and ngarehu — Hand Poke Two pigments for two jobs: *awheto*, a caterpillar fungus, for the body; *ngarehu*, burnt timber, for the darker face colour. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/ink/awheto-ngarehu/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
The face grids — สักด้วยมือ เส้น จุด และการผสมกัน จัดวางต่างกันไปตามกลุ่มชาวชิน nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/th/motif/chin-grid/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
tatau — Hand Poke The Polynesian word English borrowed. Cook's crew wrote it down in 1769 and it displaced every English word for the practice. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/tatau-word/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
The Chin ban — Hand Poke Burma's socialist government banned Chin facial tattooing in the 1960s; missionaries had been discouraging it for decades already. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/chin-ban/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
sicanje — Hand Poke Pricking. Colloquially also *bocanje* and *bockanje*, which mean the same and sound like it. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/sicanje-word/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
Moko kauae — Hand Poke The Māori chin marking worn by women. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/motif/moko-kauae/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
Rabali — Hand Poke The Fijian tattooist recorded as still working between 1908 and 1910, when she was the only one left. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/person/rabali/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
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