Story: Tā moko – Māori tattooing

More links and websites

• Allan Baldwin: kuia with moko gallery

  A gallery of images of women with moko, photographed in the 1960s by Hawke’s Bay photographer Allan Baldwin.

• Ta Moko

  A 2007 television documentary on tā moko.

• Ta moko artists

  A national organisation for tā moko practitioners.

More suggestions and sources

• Gell, Alfred. Wrapping in images: tattooing in Polynesia. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• King Michael. Moko: Maori tattooing in the 20th century. Auckland: David Bateman, 1992.
• Robley, H. G. Moko: the art and history of Maori tattooing. Twickenham: Senate, 1998 (originally published 1896).
• Roth, Henry Ling. 'Maori tatu and moko.' Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 33 (1901): 29–64.
• Simmons, D. R. Ta moko: the art of Maori tattoo. Auckland: Reed, 1987.
• Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia. Mau moko: the world of Māori tattoo. North Shore: Penguin Viking, 2007.