Background. Tattoo arts are common in the Eastern Polynesian homeland of the Māori people, and the traditional implements and methods employed were similar to those used in other parts of Polynesia. In preEuropean Māori culture, many if not most highranking persons received moko.Moko were associated with mana and high social status; however, some very highstatus individuals were ...8/29/2001 · The word tattoo, or tattow in the 18th century, is a loanword from the Samoan word tatau, meaning to strike. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the etymology of tattoo as In 18th c. tattaow, tattow. From Polynesian (Samoan, Tahitian, Tongan, etc.) tatau.In Marquesan, tatu.Before the importation of the Polynesian word, the practice of tattooing had been described in the West as …
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