Patterns of the Past:

Tattoo Revival in the Cook Islands

Therese Mangos & John Utanga
Photography by Kirsty Griffin

 

224 pages, 234 x 240 mm
Release December 2011
ISBN 978-0-473-19377-5

RRP: NZD 50.00

The book is available online

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Therese Mangos and John Utanga's Book traces the history and practice of tattooing (tātatau) in the Cook Islands. Through the ancient oral traditions of its people, reports of often repressive early Western visitors and rich archival material.
Contents, 12 - 13
Preface, 14 - 15
Preface 2, 16 - 17
TĀTATAU, 40- 41
TĀTATAU, 2 42 - 43
TĀTATAU 3, 44 - 45
TĀTATAU 4, 46 - 47
THE RENAISSANCE, 70 -71
THE RENAISSANCE 2, 72 - 73
THE RENAISSANCE 3, 72 - 73
THE RENAISSANCE | Section two