Unpacking the five main Polynesian tattoo styles: Samoan, Marquesan, Tahitian, Hawaiian, and Maori tattoos. Presenting over 400 symbols and their meanings. Fully illustrated with more than 550 images, with 15 original tattoos deconstructed and explained. This book explains the main Polynesian styles of tattooing, presenting each of them with a historical and cultural introduction, highlighting the traditional symbols and their meanings. Fifteen original designs and their stories are examined, showing how to identify and understand their building elements and explaining how they interact with each other to compose a meaningful tattoo. All the original tattoos are broken up into their main parts, outlined for clearer identification. The main parts are then inspected further, revealing the basic building elements and symbols, grouped by meaning. This book comes as an in-depth follow-up to The POLYNESIAN TATTOO Handbook and it extends the study of Polynesian tattoo styles and designs to help understand their origins and purpose, their symbolism, and their creation guidelines.
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-15 - Publisher: TattooTribes
Unpacking the five main Polynesian tattoo styles: Samoan, Marquesan, Tahitian, Hawaiian, and Maori tattoos. Presenting over 400 symbols and their meanings. Fully illustrated with more than 550 images, with 15 original tattoos deconstructed and explained. This book explains the main Polynesian styles of tattooing, presenting each of them with a
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-01 - Publisher: TattooTribes
This book will give you an insight on Polynesian tattoo motifs. It will help you understand them, their symbolism and their meanings. It will help you find the ideas for your own tattoo and help you creating it. Design creation process explained in detail with case studies - Polynesian Symbols
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-26 - Publisher: TattooTribes
20 unpublished Polynesian style designs for tattoo artists. 20 freely resizable vector PDF designs and related stencils. Mantas are amazing animals usually associated to several different meanings, some depending on their nature and behaviour, some inherited from legends and stories. This book contains 20 unpublished flash designs of mantas along
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-05 - Publisher: TattooTribes
Many tattoos from all Polynesian cultures often share a common trait: they include elements representing protection. It's easy to understand why: protection was often needed from enemies and environment, and tattoos, being a sacred connection to the gods, were the ideal way to channel protection upon men and women alike.
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-26 - Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
New Zealand in the 1820s had no government or bureaucratic presence; no newspapers were published; the literate population was probably no more than a couple of dozen people at any one time. Early explorers' assessments of New Zealand were haphazard at best - few knew what to make of this