Needle and sinew — Hand Poke The same needle that sewed the clothing, threaded with sinew blackened in soot and drawn under the skin. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tool/needle-and-sinew/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
sak kha lai — Hand Poke To prick the legs in patterns — the verb, the body part and the word for pattern, in that order. No separate noun for the tattoo is needed. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/sak-kha-lai-word/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
The Cordilleran mummies — Hand Poke Mummified Cordilleran people in cave and hanging-coffin burials, tattooed, with the designs also carved on the coffins. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/find/cordilleran-mummies/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The Chin ban — Hand Poke Burma's socialist government banned Chin facial tattooing in the 1960s; missionaries had been discouraging it for decades already. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/chin-ban/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
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
Uhi — Hand Poke A chisel of albatross bone hafted to a handle and struck with a mallet, cutting a groove that the pigment fills. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tool/uhi/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The Ukok woman — Hand Poke A Pazyryk woman buried on the Ukok Plateau, preserved in ice for about 2,400 years, with animal designs on her skin. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/find/ice-maiden/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The designs — Hand Poke What the marks are of, what they are said to do, and which ones have to be earned. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/designs/ · 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
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
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