batok — Hand Poke From Proto-Austronesian *beCik, tattoo, with relatives *patik, mottled, and *burik, speckled — the word for a pattern, applied to skin, cloth and pot alike. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/batok-word/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
Soot and milk — Hand Poke Soot mixed with breast milk, reported as the Kurdish preparation. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/ink/soot-milk/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
Tatau — Hand Poke Samoa: a comb of bone and turtle shell, struck with a mallet, covering a man from the middle of the back to the knees. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/tatau/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K
The face grids — Hand Poke Lines, dots, and combinations of both, arranged differently by each Chin group. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/motif/chin-grid/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
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
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
htoe kwin — Hand Poke *Htoe* is to prick or pierce; *kwin* is a ring or an enclosure. The name describes the framed rings the figures sit in. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/htoe-kwin-word/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
tatau — Hand Poke The Polynesian word English borrowed. Cook's crew wrote it down in 1769 and it displaced every English word for the practice. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/tatau-word/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K