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Maori tattooing /

Robley, Horatio Gordon, b. 1840.

Maori tattooing / H.G. Robley. - Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2003. - xxi, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"An unabridged republication of Moko, or, Maori tattooing, originally published by Chapman and Hall, Limited, London, in 1896"--Verso t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-212) and index.

PART I. MOKO -- I. How Moko first became known to Europeans -- II. Men's Moko -- III. Women's Moko -- IV. Moko processes and tapu -- V. Patterns and designs -- VI. Operators or artists in Moko -- VII. Mokoed Europeans and Mokoed visitors to Europe -- VIII. Moko in legend and song -- IX. Decadence of Moko. -- PART II. MOKOMOKAI -- X. Tradition, history and incidents -- XI. Methods of embalming -- XII. Traffic in heads -- XIII. Mokoed heads in some museums and collections -- List of some of the works consulted.

0486430928 (pbk.)

2003062585


Maori (New Zealand people)--Social life and customs.
Tattooing--Themes, motives.--New Zealand
Tribal tattoos--Themes, motives.--New Zealand
Art, Maori--Themes, motives.

GN667.N9 / R7 2003

391.6/5/0993

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