How the word got in — Hand Poke English had no single word for the practice until Cook's crew brought one back from Polynesia. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/cook-1769/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Bearing it — Hand Poke In tradition after tradition the pain is not a side effect of the mark. It is the thing being demonstrated. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/rite/the-pain/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Stitch — Hand Poke A needle carrying a thread blackened with soot, drawn through the skin so the line of pigment stays where the thread passed. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/method/stitch/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
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
Khan tang — Hand Poke The fee, set by the master, presented in a bowl: flowers, candles, incense, cloth, coins, and whatever else that master's line asks for. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/rite/khan-tang/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Kakiniit — Hand Poke Inuit tattoos: women's work on women's skin, stitched with a sooted thread drawn under the skin, or poked. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/kakiniit/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K
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
godna — Hand Poke To prick. The noun for the tattoo and the verb for the needle are the same word. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/godna-word/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 49K
The aubergine flower — Hand Poke *Bungai terung*, worn on each shoulder when a young Iban man leaves home on his journey. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/motif/bungai-terung/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
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