Vintage portraits of the last traditionally tattooed Maori women before the Ta Moko’ tattoos were outlawed by British colonialists, 1890-1910

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These late-19th and early-20th century photographs show some of the last Maori women to wear the traditional Tā moko face marking before it was outlawed by British colonialists. Ta moko is the name for the permanent body and face marking by Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. The tattoos depicted the story of the […]