Visitors to Te Puia | New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute (NZMACI), in Rotorua, will be able to take away a permanent reminder of their visit with a new tā moko studio opening today 14 June>>.

Rotorua Daily Post reporter Alice Guy has a firsthand experience in the new tā moko studio at Te Puia. As an independent 24-year-old, no one flutters an eyelid when I tell them I am getting a tattoo, ...

The Maori have a centuries-old tradition of tā moko, their distinct body mod tattooing On tonight’s Needles and Pins on VICELAND, we travel to New Zealand with British body modification artist Grace ...

Tā moko should never be referred to as 'scribbles', a Māori academic says following comments made in Parliament by NZ First leader Winston Peters. Paora Sharples, haka expert and Māori Studies ...

When I first saw Sally Anderson's moko kauae I assumed she had Māori ancestry and it was her link to them. But Anderson is not Māori, she is a Pākehā woman. Her husband, Roger Te Tai has a full facial ...

Photographer Michael Bradley discusses his extraordinary works featuring wet-plate photography. In Māori culture, it is believed everyone has a tā moko under the skin, just waiting to be revealed.

As master tattooist Heemi Te Peeti etched a tā moko on Paora Te Hurihanganui's face, the pair were making connections with more than just their own ancestry. The traditional Māori ceremony at Te ...

Two Te Tairāwhiti tā moko artists have created the Silver Ferns’ new dress design, Manawarau, unveiled for the first time on Wednesday. “Henare and I are really only pencils to their designs,” Maia ...

Tā Moko is the traditional tattoo worn by the Maori of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Since the Maori people consider the head to be the most sacred part of the body, the most popular kind of Maori tattoo is ...

Snapchat’s parent company has removed a filter that applied images of sacred Māori face tattoos, known as Tā Moko, to user’s faces. The filter caused outcry among communities of the indigenous people ...