The needle now — Hand Poke Single-use needles, gloves and an autoclave are the difference between a hand tradition in 1882 and the same hand tradition today. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/issue/the-needle-now/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Hlai women's marks — Hand Poke Hainan: Hlai women marked on face, throat, arms and legs in patterns that told one lineage from another. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/hlai-marks/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Deq — Hand Poke Kurdistan: marks on women's faces, hands and feet, for protection, for health, and to say which tribe. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/deq/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Kayan tattooing — Hand Poke Upriver Borneo, where the tattooists were women and the work went on a woman's forearms, thighs and feet across years. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/kayan-borneo/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Leslie Milne — Hand Poke The ethnographer who lived among the northern Shan and published the leg-tattoo account this site leans on. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/person/milne-shans/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Patutiki — Hand Poke The Marquesas: coverage so complete that Willowdean Handy's 1922 survey had to be drawn panel by panel to record it. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/marquesan-patutiki/ · 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
Exhibited — Hand Poke For two and a half centuries, the main way a European saw a tattooed body was on a stage, with an entrance fee. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/exhibited/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
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
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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