Tijdens het surfen kwam ik deze site tegen over polynesische tattoo’s :http://www.pbs.org/skinstories/. Hier wordt precies uitgelegd hoe de polynesische tattoo tot stand is gekomen, wat de betekenis van sommige moko’s is en je kunt leuke postcards naar iemand e-mailen.
Ze hebben dan ook een uitgebreid overzicht van termen die gebruikt worden in polynesië:
[LET OP - S = Samoaans; M = Maori; H = Hawaiaans]
- Aiga â?? extended family (S)
- Ala Niho â?? leg stripe tattoo design lit. tooth path (H)
- Alaka’i â?? guide or leader (H)
- Ali’i â?? sacred chiefs (S,H)
- ‘Ama’u â?? a fern that grows up in the uplands (H)
- Aotearoa â?? “Land of the Long White Cloud” (Maori name for the North Island of New Zealand)
- Ariki â?? sacred chiefs (M)
- Au â?? special tattooing comb (S)
- ‘Aumakua â?? ancestral guardian spirit (H)
- ‘Aumakua Pueo â?? an Hawaiian ancestral guardian that manifests as an owl
- ‘Awa or ‘Ava â?? Piper methysticum; a plant in the pepper family; a narcotic drink made from the roots of this plant (H)
- Fue â?? fly whisk (S)
- Halau â?? schools (H)
- Hale Mua â?? the first formal institute of learning in which a Hawaiian male enters
- Hapu â?? sub-tribe (M)
- Hulu Pueo â?? the feathers of the owl (H)
- Inu ‘Awa â?? to drink ‘awa (H)
- Kahuna â?? a master artist, artisan, or craftsman (H)
- Kakau â?? (v.) traditional Hawaiian art of tattooing
- Kapu â?? taboos (H)
- Kauä â?? a class of Hawaiian outcasts (H)
- Kava â?? Piper methysticum; a plant in the pepper family; a narcotic drink made from the roots of this plant; also ‘ava, ‘awa, or kavakava
- Koru â?? spiral - a common design in Maori tattooing, carving and other arts
- Kuleana â?? responsibility, privilege (H)
- Lima â?? tattoos on the hands (S)
- Mai’a â?? a fruit that has seeds, but doesn’t grow from seeds; banana (H)
- Malu â?? tattoo on a woman’s thighs (S)
- Mana â?? a person’s spiritual power or life force
- Matai â?? a person with a chiefly title (S)
- Moko â?? traditional tattoo art (M)
- Moko Kauae â?? woman’s chin moko
- Moku O Keawe â?? a poetic name for the island of Hawai’i
- Nahiri â?? spiritual plane
- Pahupu â?? an elite company of Hawaiian warriors from Maui
- Pakeha â?? white people
- Pala’ai â?? coward
- Pe’a â?? an intricate tattoo that covers the body from mid-torso to the knees (S)
- Pe’ahi Niu â?? crescent fan; Hawaiian tattoo design based on the fan
- Pitau â?? unfurling fern frond; Maori spiral design based on the fern
- Pito â?? belly button; Maori spiral design based on the belly button
- Pounamu â?? New Zealand jade, Nephrite jade; commonly called Greenstone
- Pueo â?? the Hawaiian owl
- Puhoro â?? an intricate Maori tattoo extending from mid-torso to the knees, which featured the characteristic design of a spiral on the buttock
- Pule â?? a prayer, to pray (H, S)
- Siva â?? traditional Samoan dance
- Ta Moko â?? the process of tattooing
- Ta’ Rapanui â?? traditional tattoo art
- Tanoa â?? ‘ava bowl (S)
- Tatatau â?? Tongan traditional tattoo art
- Tatau â?? Samoan traditional tattoo art
- Teorewai â?? a Maori tribe whose name means “to gently swivel the water so that it ripples and splashes just a little.”
- Te Waipounamu â?? “The Greenstone Waters” (Maori name for the South Island of New Zealand)
- Tohunga â?? a master artist, artisan, or craftsman (M)
- To’oto’o â?? orator’s staff (S)
- Tufuga â?? a master artist, artisan, or craftsman (S)
- Tulafale â?? talking chiefs (S)
- Uhi â?? Maori tattoo chisel, sometimes serrated; (n.) Hawaiian traditional tattoo art
- Wananga â?? a gathering, often for educating others (S)
- Whakapapa â?? one’s genealogy (M)
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