Who wrote it down — Hand Poke Most of what is known about the stopped traditions was written by the people whose arrival stopped them. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/issue/who-wrote-it-down/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
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
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 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
Ötzi — Hand Poke The Alpine body with sixty-one tattoos — nineteen groups of black lines, and the greatest concentration on the legs. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/find/otzi/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The Veiqia Project — Hand Poke The collective of Fijian women artists who researched veiqia in collections and archives and brought the practice back. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/org/veiqia-project/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
Hajichi — Hand Poke The Ryukyu Islands: marks on the backs of women's hands, outlawed by Japan in 1899 and now being put back on. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/hajichi/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Shway Yoe — Hand Poke The Scottish administrator who wrote the fullest English description of Burmese tattooing, under a Burmese pen name, in 1882. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/person/shway-yoe/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
The framed animal — Hand Poke A tiger, a cat, a monkey, an elephant, a *nat* or a *bilu*, each sitting inside an oval frame of letters. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/motif/framed-animal/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
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