Tattoo Traditions of Hawai'i - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tattoo Traditions of Hawai'i write by Tricia Allen. This book was released on 2005. Tattoo Traditions of Hawai'i available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Anthropologist and tattooist Tricia Allen has harnessed centuries of knowledge about Hawaiian tattoos and has created this fascinating, comprehensive reference book that can be enjoyed by both tattoo enthusiasts and cultural scholars. Tattoo Traditions of Hawaii describes the evolution of Hawaiian tattooing as an art and science tracing it from its early roots in ancient Polynesia; presents motif, meaning, placement, tools and techniques along with personal observations and commentary in meticulous and graphic detail; discusses contemporary Hawaiian tattooing within the context of contact with the Western world; and includes drawings of designs and patterns for ideas and consideration"--Publisher's description.
The Hawaiian Tattoo
The Hawaiian Tattoo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hawaiian Tattoo write by P. F. Kwiatkowski. This book was released on 2012-08. The Hawaiian Tattoo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hawaiian tattoos (kakau) are intriguing, tribally exotic, ancient in origin, enigmatic, culturally meaningful, mysterious, evocative, and eye-catching. They are worn by persons from all walks of lifekumu hula, dancers, chanters, athletes, educators, artists, and security officers. Here is valuable information compiled by Hawaiian culture researcher and educator, P.F. Kwiatkowski, that explores many aspects of Hawaiian tattooingits origins, significance of designs, and their relation to religion, magic, social status, and personal expression. The information delivered is concise and helps dispel some misconceptions regarding the meaning of Hawaiian motifs and the differences between Hawaiian and Polynesian tattoo designs and placement. You will learn the what and why of the usage and the significance of the designs.
The Polynesian Tattoo Today
The Polynesian Tattoo Today - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Polynesian Tattoo Today write by Tricia Allen. This book was released on 2010. The Polynesian Tattoo Today available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This collection of amazing photos attests to the high level of artistic achievement and technical ability of the Polynesian people today, as well as nonislanders who have been heavily influenced by the art of the Pacific."---Ed Hardy --Book Jacket.
Tatau
Tatau - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tatau write by Jean Tekura Mason. This book was released on 2001. Tatau available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Jean Tekura Mason's poetry reflects her life as a person living in two worlds - Polynesian and European. Some of her poems are reflective. Others are glib (and deliberately so). There is humour and there is passion - of love and hate, pagan faiths and Christian beliefs, ancestors and dancers, customs and politics, migrants and immigrants, and Pacific flora and fauna - all have stimulated Ms Mason to put pen to paper. At times incisive and descriptive, and at others deeply moging, this book is a collection of poems which is both retrospective perceptive"--Back cover
Tattooing in the Marquesas
Tattooing in the Marquesas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tattooing in the Marquesas write by Willowdean Chatterson Handy. This book was released on 2012-04-10. Tattooing in the Marquesas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Definitive source on intricate tattoos of Polynesia's Marquesas Islands offers a rare glimpse of a vanished art. Its 38 plates of black-and-white drawings and photographs provide an unusually complete and intimate record.
