The Best Maori Tribal Tattoos

The Oceanic tribes are natives of New Zealand. Though, they are part of the Austronesian heritage, they have given themselves a distinct cultural heritage that historians have distributed them from the different tribes of Polynesia.

It is rattling much the same for their tattoo designs. The Oceanic tribal tattoos have their own unique identity compared to their Austronesian counterparts. Their spirals and curved shapes form a rattling intricate ornament that rattling characteristic to the Oceanic tribes. Legend said that a teen warrior learned the prowess of the Oceanic tribal tattoos from the lord of the underworld, after success back the heart of the lord's daughter.

For the Maori tribe, the tattoos are part of special rituals celebrating a portion or special circumstance in one tribesman's life. A tribesman would receive his or her first tattoo as a rite of passage from childhood to juvenile and would be added whenever there are significant events in his or her chronicle that would need to be celebrated. A tribesman that would be awarded with a tattoo would go into fasting before he or she was given a tattoo. During the ceremony itself, there would be penalization and vocalizing as it is a celebration not exclusive for that portion tribesman but for the whole folk itself.

Both men and women of the folk can be awarded with a tattoo as a exhibit of courage, capableness and would be given a specific position in the tribe. The tattoos of the men in portion would counterbalance the whole face patch the women would exclusive counterbalance the cheeks and the lips, though sometimes the tattoos for the women would counterbalance the cervix as well.

It is said that the more tattoos a person hit in his body, the higher his position is in their tribe. Tribesmen who do not hit a tattoo in their bodies were considered worthless. Though women in the folk hit lesser tattoos in their bodies, it is mostly because they are not required to exhibit such spirit and capableness and leave their men to it.

Maori tribal tattoos are mostly known for their face tattoos. But there are also tattoo designs that are used for the embody specifically the legs and the buttocks. The embody tattoos would be intimately similar to the face tattoos with the diminutive difference of the curves and spirals being bigger and more distinct than the face tattoos would be.