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 ...

When George Tamihana Nuku, a Maori chief with a full facial moko (as the elaborate skin art is known), was touring America two years ago, not everyone was shocked by his appearance. "Some people are ...

Arekatera “Katz” Maihi can vividly recall the sickening stench of smoke and harrowing echo of family members’ cries as his tribal house in Auckland, New Zealand, went up in flames in the middle of the ...

An exhibition that explores traditional Maori facial tattooing opens at Waikato Museum this Saturday [30 January]. ‘Face Value’ is an insightful exhibition which looks at what the traditional facial ...

NEW YORK -- Moko Jumbie is a style of traditional African dance where performers dance on stilts high above the ground. The practice almost went extinct after being brought to the Caribbean, until it ...

The Pour It Up singer chose to mark her recent trip to New Zealand by getting a traditional Maori design tattooed onto her right hand using the excruciatingly painful yet traditional Ta Moko method.

Many of Rotorua's bars adopt a realistic approach when it comes to allowing visibly tattooed customers on to their premises. A man was asked to leave a Christchurch bar because of his full facial ta ...