Traditional Maori Tattoos

 

In this maori tattoo design article i am going to let you know a few things about traditional maori tattoo designs and what you should try avoid.

It is helpful and useful when deciding on getting a great looking and unique traditional maori tattoo art

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There are plenty mistakes people make when getting traditional maori tattoo art and i hope that by the end of this article you will avoid the most common mistakes made today

Today with the ever growing popularity of tattoo art amongst all cultures through our increasing multi cultural society traditional maori tattoo designs seem to be the choice of tattoo

What you will find is that traditional maori tattoo designs have be come so popular that they are often the first choice of tattoo designs when people want to get a tattoo

In today’s world with so many tattoo artists and so many people looking to get a tattoo art, you will find them going through and looking at other cultures in the hope of borrowing or worse of stealing other peoples designs to come up with their own tattoo designs This can be seen as originality or artistic flair when looking at other non traditional tattoos but should be avoided when looking at traditional maori tattoo designs.

If you are serious on getting a traditional maori tattoo art and this is what you have set your heart on then it would and should be great for you to learn about the lingo that goes with maori tattoo designsJust like in every field on life there are terms associated with the way people do things, so it is with  traditional maori tattoo art.The ta moko is the name of the family identification of Maori that form part of the group known as whakapapa.

The reason identification through tattoos was important for the maori was that they were able to distinguish each other on the battle fields by having a look at the tattoos on their body, this also allowed them to know their family history if they moved places over centuries

These maori tattoos are still used by Some maori chiefs to recall their history and ancestorysome chiefs can look at a Maori tattoo design, read it like a book, they do this by feeling the texture, looking at the design and the precision that went into getting the tattoo and will be able to trace back some of these Maori family trees.Some of these tattoos go back 2000 years, yes that right all through just looking at the design and finishing of the tattoo they will be able to tell certain maoris families origins. There is a story in each maori tattoo that you see, each one tells a little bit about this maoris tribe and is unique like a finger print to each tribe

Alright we have dealt with the “TA” of the “TAMOKO” but what about the “MOKO” well the moko has got to do with the actual carving or inking of the skin when it comes to the traditional maori tattoo art

 

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