Lio Faamasino didn't start with a formal apprenticeship in tattooing. He didn't learn in a shop, and he originally bought a machine to ink himself out of his own home. All three of those details would ...

The Aranui 5 is a passenger-freighter vessel that makes 14-day voyages between Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands. James D. Morgan/Getty Images Born on the 40-square-mile island of Ua Pou in the ...

Tattooing goes back millennia and spans cultures, as evidenced by mummified remains ,yet many details of the body modification's origins have been shrouded in mystery. Now an ancient bone tattoo kit ...

RANGIROA, French Polynesia — The origins of Polynesian tattooing go back to the first waves of migrations from Southeast Asia. The first traces of tattooing in Polynesia date back 2,000 years! The ...

GARDEN GROVE – Not widely practiced, the tattooing art of tatau has been a right of passage for men and women in Samoa for centuries, and a small shop in Garden Grove is one of a few places stateside ...

MONTEREY >> Marlo Kaleookalani Lualemana is an artist. Her canvas is human skin. Here tools are a bright orange Sharpie pen, a red Bic pen, ink and a vibrating needle. The Salinas resident is among a ...

A set of four tiny combs from the Polynesian kingdom Tonga might be among the world's oldest tattoo kits. The tools had been sitting in storage in an Australian university for decades. A team of ...

Each year, Butter adds new ornament designs to her exquisitely made ‘Nei Hua’ ornaments. “As every year, Butter told this reporter, we’ve added seven new Hawaiian ornament designs just in time for ...

Archaeologists believe tools dating back almost 3,000 years—including a comb thought to have been carved out of human bone—make up the world's oldest known complete tattoo artist's kit. In 1963, ...

Australian researchers used carbon dating to determine the tattoo tools from Tonga are around 2,700 years old. Tattooing goes back millennia and spans cultures, as evidenced by mummified remains, yet ...