The Aranui 5 is a passenger-freighter vessel that makes 14-day voyages between Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands. James D. Morgan/Getty Images Born on the 40-square-mile island of Ua Pou in the ...

RANGIROA, French Polynesia — The origins of Polynesian tattooing go back to the first waves of migrations from Southeast Asia. The first traces of tattooing in Polynesia date back 2,000 years! The ...

Tattoos told uplifting stories of cultural exchange, like shipwrecked sailors who married into Polynesian families and got the tattoos to mark their new allegiances, or French fur traders in North ...

The festivities kick off Saturday, Oct. 4, with the 34 annual Moanikeala Hula Festival, in honor of the center’s first kumu ...

It goes without saying that these days, tattoos are everywhere. And while societal acceptance of ink has ebbed and flowed, many people who spend hours in tattoo parlors adding to their growing ...

1. Introduction. The corporeality of tattooing and identities -- Ideology and the body -- Ideological shifts of Tahitian tattoo history -- The temporality of tattooing -- The spatiality of tattooing - ...

"I am so proud and grateful to be carrying this kakau (tattoo); truly feeling more whole," she wrote. "As I spend more and more time away from home, having my Mauna Kea, manu, and nihotaniwha remind ...

Roonui Anania, Chimé and Purotu started tattooing themselves and tattooing in the street, by snatch, that means with sewing needles attached to match sticks, then electric razors. Indian ink in a beer ...

The crowd flocked to the upper-level balconies of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts’ great hall, trying to get a glimpse of an ‘ava ceremony — what one speaker called the “highest gesture of respect” in ...