Tattoos designs

Tattoos designs

There are many mistakes people make when being paid traditional Maori tattoos designs and i hope that by the end of this article you will avoid the most widespread mistakes made by most people these days. In fact time-honored Maori tattoo designs are some of the most popular tattoo designs around and there’s a valid reason why traditional Maori tattoo art is so popular in our current multi-cultural societies.  In today’s world with so many tattoo artists and so many people looking to get tattoo art, you will find them going through and looking at other cultures in the hope of borrowing or worse of stealing other peoples designs to come up with their own tattoos.

Tattoos designs

This can lead to imaginative flair, but not so when choosing traditional Maori tattoo designs .To understand traditional Maori tattoo designs you need to be aware of traditional Maori vocabulary.As you know if you were education about science or any field there will be terms connected with that scrupulous study and so it is with traditional Maori tattoo art. Theta make is the name of the family discovery of Maori that form part of the group known as whack papal. The reason it is imperative for Maoris to know their family olden times is imperative especially when they were warring amongst each other over the centuries and before their arrival of the shores of New Zealand.

Tattoos designs

There are still Maoris that can trace their history with these Maori tattoos, some chiefs can look at a Maori tattoo design, read it like a book, they do this by feeling the consistency, looking at the design and the precision that went into being paid the tattoo and will be able to trace back some of these Maori family trees.There are designs that date back over a 2,000 year period in Maori history, these chiefs have the skill and talent by looking at the design and are able to tell how far this tattoo dates back to or this particular design origins. What most people don’t become unaware when looking at a design is that they tell a story, though they look like a swirl or twirl to us, they actually tell a full story when you know how to read these tattoos.

Tattoos designs

So you have learnt about the “at” form of the Maori verbal communication now it’s time to introduce the “make” part, that is the important part as it involves the chiseling of the tattoo into the skin. So you think that getting a tattoo by today’s standards is painful, well traditionally the Maori made deep cuts into the skin using vicious tools and yes also the bones of albatross,For the Maori to be able to tell between themselves from the other tribes they used the color of the ink to tell the family history and the pattern on the skin would then allow someone to take to mean the family history of these patterns.

Tattoos designs

What this would essentially do for someone is that they would, if they were an elder be able to tell the account by looking at the design the make and of course the patterning of the skin. There is a common misconception around the world thinking that Maori tattoos in theiroriginal sense were only done on the faces, however this is not true, they were also done on peoples bodies, what this permitted them to do was distinguish their chiefs or leaders by having these markings on their faces

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