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A festival Saturday will help close out an exhibit on Samoan tattooing in its final days at the Bishop Museum. “Tatau: Marks of Polynesia,” hosted at the museum since 2021, will be taken down and ...

“Tatau: Marks of Polynesia,” at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles July 30-Jan. 8, looks at the Samoan practice of tattoo and how the patterns and motifs of these works of art help ...

With nearly 180 images from photographer John Agcaoili, plus artifacts and tattoo instruments, Tatau examines both the cultural history of Samoan tattoos and the designs in modern times. The ...

You must not stand behind the artist, he said, going through a litany of restrictions that govern the traditional art of tattoo in Samoa. You may view respectfully from a distance, he said, but to ...

I lay on the mat of the open-air bungalow in Apia, Samoa, looking up at a gecko. As its tail quivered, I felt a sympathetic twitch in my leg. Su’a Sulu’ape Paulo III, the sixth-generation Samoan ...

SEATTLE (Island News) -- Tracy Sialega-Fili is a Hawaiian Airlines customer service agent working out of Seattle. She's devastated after losing her dream job. "I cried. I felt so bad. I was just ...