Tā moko
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Tā moko is the permanent marking or tattooing as customarily practised by Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. It is one of the five main Polynesian tattoo styles.
Sketch of a Māori chief, 1773 engraving by T. Chambers based on a 1769 drawing by Sydney Parkinson, from the 1784 edition of A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas
"Portrait of a young Maori woman with moko", by Louis John Steele (1891)
Portrait of Tāmati Wāka Nene by Gottfried Lindauer (1890)
Painting by Gottfried Lindauer of a moko being carved into a man's face by a tohunga-tā-moko (tattooist)
Oriini Kaipara
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Oriini Ngawai Kaipara is a New Zealand politician, broadcaster, journalist and translator and interpreter of Māori and English. She has served as a Member of Parliament since winning the Tāmaki Makaur
Tā moko
…of that. We need to move away from moko being linked to gangs, because that is not what moko represent at all." On 25 December 2021, Māori journalist Oriini Kaipara, who has a moko kauae, became the first person with traditional facial markings to host a prime-time news programme on national television in New…
Kaipara in 2022