Facial tattoos have been a part of Maori culture for centuries, a sacred marker of the wearer's genealogy and heritage. But one woman's striking chin design - or moko - has generated huge debate ...

Andu Schiodt Pikilak has dark dashes on her forehead descending into a deep “V” like geese flying in formation, an Inuit tattoo she sees as a rebirth for both her and Greenlandic culture.

As a young girl growing up in the Atlas mountains, Hannou Mouloud’s family took her to have her chin tattooed ... “Some women even removed the tattoos long after getting them for fear of ...

“When I was six, they told me tattoos ... practice among women in North Africa’s Amazigh groups. Today, like in many of the Indigenous cultures across the world where facial tattoos were ...

Facial tattoos, or moko, have been a part of Maori ... There has been a resurgence in interest in moko among both Maori men and women. Since the 2000s, moko has become increasingly seen and ...

She’s someone who wears Gucci and she wears moko kauae,” Ms Sykes added, referring to a traditional Maori chin tattoo. “She ...

Body art is practiced in all world cultures. Here, a survey of designs from Maori facial engravings to prison tattoos to gay pride ink. 9 Rare Photos Of The First Crossing Of Antarctica A new book ...

As a young girl growing up in the Atlas mountains, Hannou Mouloud's family took her to have her chin tattooed with the cherished lines that generations of Moroccan Amazigh tribeswomen wore.

As a young girl growing up in the Atlas mountains, Hannou Mouloud's family took her to have her chin tattooed with ... body," he said. "Some women even removed the tattoos long after getting ...