The Sulu'ape line — Hand Poke The Samoan master-tattooist titles, held in two families, and carried into the present by name. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/person/sulu-ape/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
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
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
Hovak Johnston — Hand Poke The Inuvialuk woman whose project took the kakiniit off the archive shelf and back onto skin, learning the stitch from elders. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/person/hovak-johnston/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
Sedna's hands — Hand Poke Hand and arm marks referring to where the sea goddess's fingers were cut off. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/motif/sedna-hands/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
The pilgrim's cross — Hand Poke A small cross on the inside of the wrist, printed from a carved block and then marked in. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/motif/pilgrim-cross/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
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
sak kha lai — Hand Poke To prick the legs in patterns — the verb, the body part and the word for pattern, in that order. No separate noun for the tattoo is needed. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/sak-kha-lai-word/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
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
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