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 ...

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 - ...

Each year, Butter adds new ornament designs to her exquisitely made ‘Nei Hua’ ornaments. “As every year, Butter told this reporter, we’ve added seven new Hawaiian ornament designs just in time for ...

“Tatau: Marks of Polynesia,” at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles July 30-Jan. 8, looks at the Samoan practice of tattoo and how the patterns and motifs of these works of art help ...

A set of four tiny combs from the Polynesian kingdom Tonga might be among the world's oldest tattoo kits. The tools had been sitting in storage in an Australian university for decades. A team of ...