Tohunga
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In the culture of the Māori of New Zealand, a tohunga is an expert practitioner of any skill or art, either religious or otherwise. Tohunga include expert priests, healers, navigators, carvers, builde
"Matapo, a blind tohunga" in Te Tohunga by Wilhelm Dittmer, 1907
Tohunga handling the dead would be fed by another, as they would become tapu and so could not handle food.
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.
Tohunga
…Tohunga wetereo: expert in the language (linguist) Tohunga tā moko: expert in tā moko (tattooist) Tohunga mahi toi: expert artist…
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)