Pearce said he has added to his family tattoos since wrapping The Convert ... Once Were Warriors, was about a modern-day Maori family. "You really realize that whether something's set in the ...

It goes without saying that these days, tattoos are everywhere. And while societal acceptance of ink has ebbed and flowed, ...

But in the last 20 years, Maori culture and tattooing ... All but a few now opt to have their moko done with modern tattoo machines rather than the painful and bloody traditional chisels or ...

He is a modern master of an ancient art called ta ... "And if you don't belong, you shouldn't wear it." Even so, Maori tattoos adorn bodies of numerous foreign celebrities. Pop star Williams ...

In the Maori culture of New Zealand, the head was considered the most important part of the body, with the face embellished by incredibly elaborate tattoos or "moko," which were regarded as marks ...

A New Zealander's traditional Maori tattoos have sparked something of an international incident, with a Japanese cabinet minister calling for the country to respect other cultures after the Kiwi ...

Social media platform Snapchat has removed a feature which allowed users to apply traditional Maori tattoos on their faces. The filters were pulled after their discovery prompted an outcry in New ...