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
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
Stopped, and started again — Hand Poke Several traditions here stopped and came back. Where both ends are datable, this site subtracts them and prints the gap. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/revival/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Kengtung — Hand Poke The eastern Shan town that sits in the middle of the leg-tattoo zone, and in the middle of the Tai world the zone is drawn on. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/place/kengtung/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
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
Khem sak — Hand Poke The sak yant needle: a long steel or brass shaft, pushed with one hand and steered with the other. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tool/khem-sak/ · 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
Iban tattooing — Hand Poke Borneo: tapped designs carved on a block and printed onto the skin, with hand marks reserved for a man who had taken a head. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/iban-borneo/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 53K
The open questions — Hand Poke Questions this site cannot settle: whose designs, whose hands, whose photographs, and what counts as hand-poked at all. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/questions/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
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