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 revival ...
The New York Times: Cool Tribal Tattoo. Is It From the ’90s?
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The art of batok and the revival of Filipino tribal tattoo culture
The art of batok and the revival of Filipino tribal tattoo culture
OC Weekly: Lio Faamasino on Some of Tattooing's Other Styles: Polynesian and Lettering
The practice of taking home a tribal tattoo after a visit to the Pacific goes back almost 50 years to when American Peace Corp workers first visited Polynesia and left with armband tattoos. Now the ...
MLive: Ann Arbor tattoo artist draws on Filipino roots to create tribal tattoos
Ann Arbor tattoo artist draws on Filipino roots to create tribal tattoos
Polynesia[a] (UK: / ˌpɒlɪˈniːziə / ⓘ POL-in-EE-zee-ə, US: /- ˈniːʒə / -EE-zhə) is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are called Polynesians. They have many things in common, including linguistic relations, cultural practices, and traditional ...
Polynesian culture, the beliefs and practices of the indigenous peoples of the ethnogeographic group of Pacific islands known as Polynesia, which encompasses a huge triangular area of the east-central Pacific Ocean. In the early 2000s, about 70 percent of the total population of Polynesia resided in Hawaii.