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
Hanuman — Hand Poke The monkey general of the Ramakien, and one of the standing figures of Thai yant work. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/motif/hanuman/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
Htoe kwin — Hand Poke Every up-country Burmese man wore one: a sheet of dark-blue animals from the navel to below the knee, begun in boyhood. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/htoe-kwin/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 57K
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
How the word got in — สักด้วยมือ ภาษาอังกฤษไม่มีคำเดียวสำหรับสิ่งนี้ จนลูกเรือของคุกนำคำกลับมาจากโพลินีเซีย nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/th/story/cook-1769/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 53K
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
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