Taia o moko, hai hoa matenga mou. Only death can deprive you of your moko. It will be your ornament and your companion until your dying day. The Christchurch Arts Festival in association with ...

Tattooing is more than skin deep - for small-town Waipatu man, Jahvan Apatu, the traditional Maori form, ta moko, embodies culture. Ta moko is historically ritualised and depicts an individual's ...

ANCIENT ART: Raniera McGrath has created ta moko for about 300 people since learning the artform. Prefer us on Google A ta moko artist trained by one of New Zealand's finest practitioners of Maori ...

The proud history of ta moko has been honoured in a beautiful new book, writes Kate Monahan. Shane Te Ruki is a stunning man. He sits outside a cafe in Hamilton's Worley Pl, and people can't help but ...

I'm doing a project/paper for my Art-2D class on the Ta Moko of the Maori of New Zealand. So far I've spent about 3 days looking for materials and to be honest, I've come up with just about nothing in ...

Tā Moko is the traditional tattoo worn by the Maori of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Since the Maori people consider the head to be the most sacred part of the body, the most popular kind of Maori tattoo is ...

A Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi doctoral student claims 40 per cent of Maori women have or are thinking of getting a ta moko, but men have largely usurped the cultural practices around getting ...

The Maori have a centuries-old tradition of tā moko, their distinct body mod tattooing On tonight’s Needles and Pins on VICELAND, we travel to New Zealand with British body modification artist Grace ...

"It started at 5 o'clock in the morning and it didn't finish until 8 o'clock at night and so it was continuing all the time," Taurua said. "They asked me if I wanted a break and I said no, because it ...

At Ta Moko - A History on Skin four of New Zealand's finest artists will demonstrate the art of ta moko (tattoo). The artists will also conduct free talks each day, at 12.00pm and 2.00pm, looking at ...