#kirituhi

[ollovae3]

AT LAST. TOOK FOREVER DUE TO IT BEING 50 SOME-ODD DEGREES HERE?? MY HANDS HURT. BUT ITS DONE.

Some younger Boba concepts!! Drew some facial ideas and hair types (and had a BLAST with @cyareclones 's mullet idea??)? Then ran with some more body-centered stuff, with his Holiday Special armor aside scar and tattoo concepts!

[sartorialadventure]

hi! I saw your post on the kirituhi being a way to share culture. based on the way you worded the post, I wanted to check - a non-Maori artist giving another non-Maori person a tattoo inspired by Maori tattoos is NOT kirituhi, right? that's how I understood it at least - a Maori person needs to be either the artist or the person being tattooed for it to be considered kirituhi?

What I understood from the blog post I quoted was that kirituhi COULD be given by a non-Maori artist to a non-Maori person. The blogger, Taryn Beri, is a trained Maori tattoo artist. She states, “Moko is born of Māori culture. If a completed tattoo design is not born of, attached to and expressing that Māori culture, then it can not be correctly termed moko. It can safely be called kirituhi or a Māori style tattoo… There are many non-Māori tattooers around the world that make some lovely tattoo designs (and some not so lovely) inspired by Māori art, and the correct name for such work is kirituhi.” Beri’s big point is not to call a tattoo “moko” when it is really only “kirituhi”, but she uses the term “kirituhi” to include Maori-styled art/tattoos done by non-Maori artists. Make sense?

For anything more technical, I’d ask Beri directly. I’ve been getting a lot of questions about moko and kirituhi, so I must not have made it clear enough in my original post that I was quoting an outside source! I’m not at all an expert on Maori tattooing and am only quoting from the brief Google research I did on the subject. :)

[natenouveau]

I was commissioned to draw this rad halfling with kirituhi from a DnD homebrew

[loracarol]

The difference between 'kirituhi' and 'moko'

Kirituhi is a Māori style tattoo either made by a non-Māori tattooer, or made for a non-Māori wearer. Kirituhi has mana of it’s own and is a design telling the unique story of the wearer in the visual language of Māori art and design. Kiri means ‘skin’, and tuhi means ‘to write, draw,

TBH, I’m mostly posting this so that I can find the name “kirituhi” again, as that’s deffo a style of tattoo I want some day.

[kakaimeitahi]

Kirituhi is a Māori style tattoo either made by a non-Māori tattooer, or made for a non-Māori wearer. Kirituhi has mana of it’s own and is a design telling the unique story of the wearer in the visual language of Māori art and design. Kiri means ‘skin’, and tuhi means ‘to write, draw, record,

Kirituhi is a Māori style tattoo either made by a non-Māori tattooer, or made for a non-Māori wearer. Kirituhi has mana of it’s own and is a design telling the unique story of the wearer in the visual language of Māori art and design. Kiri means ‘skin’, and tuhi means ‘to write, draw, record, adorn or decorate with painting’. Kirituhi is not restricted to only Māori people, and it is a way for Māori to share our cultural arts with people from around the world in a respectful manner, and for non-Māori artists to enjoy our beautiful art form as well. I happily do kirituhi for my clients around the world and it is a privilege to do such work for them. Kirituhi is no lesser an artform than moko, however it is different and I believe these differences must be acknowledged and respected, so that the integrity of our taonga Māori – moko, is maintained around the world.

What are people’s thoughts on this? 

[ollovae3]

OKAY. So!! Wanted to get some input from anyone on here with a little more knowledge than I might have?? Wanted to give Alpha-17 a Kirituhi (I'm pretty sure that'd be the right term) tattoo!! Aiming to fill it in later, of course, but would love any input on the design so far?? The fully Mythosaur version just kinda felt... Idk, cheap? So I restarted with this, and used a lot more refs for the full sleeve, but wanna make sure I'm not stepping over any lines!! 💕💖

[ollovae3]

What inspired you to use Tā moko in your depiction of clones?

Sadly I haven't used it often lately, since I've gotten some mixed critique on using it (I try and keep accurate, but since I'm white it's... *wobbles hand* for some and I wanna be respectful)? But I did because I wanted to incorporate more of Temuera's culture into the characters! Though more specifically on clones who follow the Resol'nare and consider themselves Mando, since the Mando'ade are supposed to be majority styled after/inspired by Māori culture.

Ask box is open!

[gystforkickz]

Give this custom a name. The black laces help pull it all together. Toe-toko lol #maori #customjordans #newzealand #kirituhi #soletearoa #lacego https://www.instagram.com/p/CX7A0PJBjr3/?utm_medium=tumblr