anchi-piri — Hand Poke Obsidian and a cut: the word carries the tool and the wound, and no word for ink. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/anchi-piri/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
batok — Hand Poke From Proto-Austronesian *beCik, tattoo, with relatives *patik, mottled, and *burik, speckled — the word for a pattern, applied to skin, cloth and pot alike. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/batok-word/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
Au — Hand Poke A set of combs — wide ones for filling, narrow ones for line — each hafted at a right angle and struck with a light mallet. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tool/au/ · 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 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
Godna — Hand Poke Northern and central India: women's marks, pricked by women, carried out of India to the Caribbean by indentured labour. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/godna/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Konyak marks — Hand Poke Nagaland and across the Myanmar border: chest and face marks a man received for taking a head. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/konyak-naga/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
lao phung dam — Hand Poke "Black-bellied Lao" — a central Thai name for the tattooed northerner, applied from outside and carrying a view with it. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/lao-phung-dam/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K