Polynesian tribal tattoo (left arm, shoulder, and chest) The larger of Johnson’s two tattoos is also his most famous one. Johnson’s mother is of Samoan descent, and he got the Polynesian ...

SAGINAW — Their inch-long, rocket-shaped Polynesian tattoos mark them as a sort of tribe. The tribe of Sean M. Stennett. tattooed on his arm, and he's proud that so many friends are ...

Leo Zulueta tattoos three frigate birds, a stylized version of a Polynesian tribal motif, on the arm of Adrien Comolet, at Spiral Tattoo in Ann Arbor. "I'm somewhere else in my head right now. I'm ...

Toetu‘u, who apprenticed under Su‘a’s father Su‘a Alaiva‘a, points out that “Maui bears ‘Neo-Polynesian Tribal’ tattoos, which is a contemporary style that began in the late 1990s ...

In the ’90s, he said, tribal tattoos had a fairly limited range of design, but now the art is a little looser and tattoo artists can do “whatever comes to our mind.” Image Pages from Mr ...

The legacy of Polynesian tatau, the onomatopoeic name for the practice of tattoo, began 3,000 years ago—the designs as diverse as the people who wear them.The Polynesian Triangle includes more ...

The Filipino art of tattooing, or batok, may not be as well known as the Polynesian or Maori tribal tattoo traditions, but after nearly being lost in the late 19th century, it's experiencing a ...