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
Who wrote it down — Hand Poke Most of what is known about the stopped traditions was written by the people whose arrival stopped them. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/issue/who-wrote-it-down/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Tap — Hand Poke A needle or a comb of needles fixed at a right angle to a handle, and a second piece of wood striking the handle to drive it in. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/method/tap/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
The lettered square — Hand Poke A grid of letters or numerals, read as a formula rather than as a picture. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/motif/mystic-square/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
The sample book — สักด้วยมือ สมุดภาพที่ช่างสักพม่าพกไป เพื่อให้เด็กเลือกลายและตำแหน่งก่อนเริ่มงาน nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/th/art/sample-book/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 53K
The Arku Cave tools — Hand Poke Chisel and serrated heads of probable hafted tattooing instruments, excavated in a burial site in northern Luzon. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/find/arku-cave/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The inks — Hand Poke Soot, charcoal, indigo, gall and cinnabar — and what they were mixed with before they went in. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/inks/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Five thousand years — Hand Poke The dated points: bodies with marks on them, bans with statutes behind them, revivals with a year. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/timeline/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The depictions — Hand Poke Murals, plates, figurines and photographs — what a picture of a tattoo is evidence of, and what it is not. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/depictions/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
moko — Hand Poke *Tā* is to strike; *moko* is the design itself. The verb in the name is the mallet, not the point. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/moko/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 49K
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