Marks of Mana Pt5 - The Evolution of Tatau
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2020
- In this final part of this award winning documentary we look at some of our most tapu forms of tatau and their meanings, and how these ancient marks have travelled across the Moana and still connect us today.
Marks of Mana Part 5 looks at the ways that Tatau stories connect all our Moana cultures and the different forms of these ancient patterns and meanings.
To watch the full Marks of Mana series click here:
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the pe'a is not for chiefs. The pe’a for the taulealea who tautua i aiga nuu ma ekalesia. but if you see a makai or chief with a pe'a then you know he was once a young man raised rich of knowledge and courage because of his Tautua to his family, village, church and culture. only the brave young men get the pe'a. And only the brave young women get the malu, always ready to serve their family and their people and represent to the fullest. it's up to us to keep this tradition strong. educate the next generation. because change is inevitable
I love it! I’m Filipino and I have tribal tattoos all over my body. I’ve had it since I was a kid, passed on from generation to generation! My great grandfather was a village chief back in the days! Now my kids have it and my grandkids will get it also.. this is the way we represent our ancestors and who we are!!
Proud of this Cultural Heritage that is still being kept alive..
تحميل وتنزيل الآن الإسم عبده ناصر صالح الشور الاذاكر الهاتف خالص بي
@David soakai bdasr 623@
على اليمن صنعاء
In Fiji theres a river close to our village which is named after a black ink where ladies in the olden days used to do their tattoos that village name still remains today "Naloaloa" meaning black .
Where bout in fiji is NaLoaloa ?
Koro cava beka Qori?
I thought it was wailoaloa beach in Nadi 😅
@kaiviti qaqa okoya mean taka beka jiko nona blackie
We come from a rich history, powerful Kings, Queens and Chiefs..May our Polynesian Culture never die or fade away..May we continue to love and teach others of our Culture and our Journey..🇦🇸🇦🇸🤙🤙
Natives from the americas agreed with you , we also want that same thing. Love from that Americas to Country and Continent .
I love polynesian woman, they are tall, very big and strong woman.
Im mixed Samoan and Hispanic but my mom never taught me anything about Samoa or that culture 😕
Much love from The Philippines 🧡🇵🇭
Ay shitt Love and respect to the Pacific I'm an Aboriginal and half Torres strait man I love how the story is told in this video RESPECT THE CULTURE 👊🏾👍🏾🤙🏾💙
Awesome insight to this, so much culture to the female side of tattooing-tattooist. The way these women speak on the tattoos they wear, you feel a strong sense of pride and history from them. Beautiful stuff🤙🏽
I am so blown away by this documentary, It is such a powerful story, so beautifully made. I admire the conviction to return to your roots, to reclaim your culture, your own body, the certainty of knowing what pattern to commit to for a lifetime. What image to imprint in the outer shell of your person for all to see and know something about you and your heritage.
BEAUTIFUL!!! People of the Pacific Islanders always smiling,,, beautiful and lovely❤
Indigenous Tattoo traditions of Polynesia in one place at the same time celebrating their cultures is truly amazing to see
Mana reflects everything you Do and everything you are ❤
What I love about our poly queens when they rep their native tatau, they look strong fearless and fine as hell.
Beautiful, the story of the Samoan tatau came from the daughters of Tui Manu'a the first king of Samoa 🇦🇸🇼🇸
Wonderful.
And what were the daughters names?
@@pitatua5345 Rachel and Brittany
Michael De La Cruz 🤣🤣
And the first Tui Manua of Samoa was the son of the last Tui Pulotu from Fiji
@@lanietuimabu428 No he wasn't the son of Tui Pulotu, Tui Manu'a umiti was the son of Tagaloalagi the one who created Tui Tonga Tui A'ana Tui Atua Tui Fiti Tui Ha'apai Tui Vava'u Tui Tuvalu Tui Tokelau and more.
The Christian Faith has changed that when Christianity came to the Islands
Women are not suppose to have a tattoo at all, regarding Tonga & only men who are still very into tattoos in the Islands
Until I came to Aotearoa & saw how much most women here, has tattoos & Samoas aswel
They're unique in their own ways, the natives and our story's, the Pacific tales & real live's stories
I agree they think this very popular but is not ..In God’s eye was very stupid
Christianity change a lot of cultures in the history to the point where tradition may not be true or accurate down to the letter.
Christianity is created to divert us from the TRUTH xxx
@@corrinetaylor6471 Jesus Christ is the only TRUTH👊
Yeah, we were eating each other before Christianity brought the Truth of Yeshua Hamashiac to our shores and with it peace and prosperity. I for one, don’t want to go back to the savage ways.
How fascinating that there’s a lot of similarities the Philippines and the Pacific Islanders...
Even the word tattoo is also similar, Tatau - Pacific Islanders, TaTu - Philippines 😊👍🏼🇵🇭❤️
Actually tatak in Philippines
My ancestors also had tatoos in the old days,especially women but this nolonger occurs. In ambae island,Vanuatu.
Mi Admiración y Respeto por esta cultura !!!! Saludos desde Venezuela.
Absolutely beautiful❤️😁 Much love from 692 🇲🇭
Proud of my Samoan Culture spread to the pacific Pe'a and Malu even word Tatau original 👏 from samoa 🇼🇸 We're originated from Samoa and American samoa.
Tatau in Fijians means " farewell" or "farewell advice"
@@AlhamdulilJesus yeah but its diffrent in our culture, eh people always bring up what their meanings r in diffrent cultures man just relax
I am proud to be a Polynesians my Peoples of the South Pacific!! ♥️
Beautiful stories. Herstories.
In fiji tatau means aide-memoire...something, usually written, that helps you to remember something....also include a formal speech with a yaqona ceremony usually done to mark your departure before your loved ones
Wowwwww!!! love this video... very powerful 😍
Thanks for the video. Great story. Loved it! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
I Really Love Polynesian People. Im From Different Country Myself, Who Used To Never Speak Any English. I Used To Be With Polynesian Samoan Girl & Used To Live With Their Family For a Long Time, They Helped Me Allot In Hard Times & Even Thought Me English. Very Good People. I Like Their Culture, Similar To Ours Somehow. Especially Cooking, Just Like My Mama Cooks, Very Delicious And Big Portions. Miss My Polynesian Samoan Family.
How is this relevant to the tattoos, namu?
Beautifully shot and explained
Maru is beautiful... and makes me proud that we have similar tattoo rituals. Rarotonga is such a beautiful culture.
Very attractive tattoos with various histories, it's good you people still practice your cultural practices, really love the diamond shaped tattoo.
This is amazing.. ilove this video, Filipino here🇵🇭
This is beautiful I never knew this 🌊 🙏 🤙
I never knew that Fijians did this. It's amazing to know that this was practiced once; it's sad that it's lost.
sis look up veiqia project and a book written by Karren Jacobs " Not a grass skirt. Ira na kai samoa kau mai viti nodra malu
Na marama ni Viti ga e caka vua na samuqawe se na iqia (na veiqia). There's evidence of this, visit the Fiji Museum, so you can see the "samuqawe" on the young ladies. Every etching is a mark and a meaning in a woman's life, more like the rites of passage. My great grandmother had elaborate & detailed designs from under her breast right to her thighs. Yes the private parts too were covered😉. Check the Veiqia Project. Sa malo.
If you read some of the Fiji history books, it’s actually a good thing women no longer did tattooing. Girls who came of age were required to tattoo their genital areas.
Wow this is Deep... awesome video
This is so beautiful ❤️
Awesome stuff.
Beautiful and powerful. Proud poly here
Nice sounding finger picking of sau fuga sona toward the end.
Very beautiful, l love it🇹🇱🙏
Those marks are fire🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥.
aye much love from palau micronesia fam 💪🏾
BEAUTIFUL
Beautiful 😍
The sogaimiti did not originate from “Fiji” it originated from Fitiuta in Manu’a .
Maukigoa o oe se magu'a
I thought tatau was originally from fiji???
Ummmmm
Yes from the daughters of king Tui Manu'a the first king of Samoa 🇼🇸🇦🇸
Wrong
such a great thing , never forget your culture xoxox
Loved that Black Rose opening song
Beautiful
Aww wow Therese Mangos, haven't seen your face in over a decade :) And had no idea you had a Maru :O Alofa atu Therese xxx
So beautiful
I love all the work you are doing on Tatau! Could anyone point me to resources on the tatau that women in pre-christian Tonga used to wear? Malo ‘aupito ❤️
Wanting to know the same.
The truth is they all just want it for show smh there was a time when getting your Malu & Pea meant something. Like you actually knew how to speak the native Tongue, Nowadays these Samoans want them for show & Sugarcoating it with “Its our culture, it’s our right” smfh...If you understand where I’m coming from than you won’t be offended by this post.
If they want to have it just for show...I think its fine....it still shows what it represents
As a Māori, I agree. Too many plastics who have no real love for our cultures just getting them for looks. People too scared of being judged by the white man so the mindset is 95% just for looks 5% for culture when it should be the opposite.
The most embarassment I felt was when someone took a photo of a Samoan lady who was taking wallets and pickpocketing people at the local shops in my area and she had a malu like bruh you'd think they'd be more conscious of how they conducted themselves especially with something so sacred on them.
I totally agree. Getting a pe'a or malu was a right of passage and NOT a privilege. It wasn't just given to just anybody. NOT everyone was entitle to have one whenever they feel like it. It was only meant for royalties. A chief's son can get a pe'a and daughter (taupou), a malu. It wasn't a FREE for all. And it was done the old fashion (traditional) way. NOT with the electric tattoo machine. Nowadays, anyone and everyone are getting one-- just for looks. NOT necessarily bc they want to identify as one of us and connect to our ancestors and our roots. Mostly, for show. (And don't send me any negative comments, bc I hit a nerve. You know who you are.😂)
Honestly they seem like palagi hipsters or hippies, how about they learn to speak the language first. I grew up in Fiji that also had a tatau culture before Christianization, only young girls got it on their pubic area, Tongan legends attribute its origin to a Fijian princess but notice they dont include Fiji in the palagi definition of Polynesia, in Fiji we just call it Pasifika.
Love it. Love 💕🤩 you
Love you auntie Kalala.
Can't wait to get my moko kauae
Awesome
the Maori whu explainz it 1st is a very beautiful way of explaining the ink linked between the polynesian culture/world
Wow amazing 💛
Not against foreigners putting our culture and history on their body because it looks cool etc.It just doesn't make sense having our stories and history inked on their body,instead maybe we need more of our tattoo artist who really know the meaning of the patterns and journeys told on our skin to explain first to any non Pacific Islander/Filipino etc. what it means,why we have it inked on our body and the history,maybe then they would realise it's more then just a cool art style tattoo and lean towards getting something else that explains their own journeys in life.This is our history books our stories,a guide that needs to be passed down to the next generations so they know where we come from and keep the culture,tradition alive.
This shit gives me goosebumps!!! I’m a proud Polynesian....chheereeooooouuuu...
Respect...
Centre of the Universe indeed 😆👏🏽👏🏽yea yea true true 🤔😆
Lots of Love people's....... Mahalo Aloha , wonkan tonkan , We come From 1 . Tangatamanu🦅
Long live the legacy of Mana
Magnifique tatouage respect 🌺🌴👣🌊
This is a beautiful video...but, why are there not darker Samoan women who also have malu, not featured in this video? They also are beautiful, and the original color of our people were golden bronze (naturally tanned) before our blood was mixed with European and Asian. Just asking a question...I'm not hating in any kind of way, but lately I've been seeing video's that always portray our Samoan women, as lighter skin women, which that isn't all true. In this day and age we come in all colors, and we still have some beautiful looking golden bronze (naturally tanned) women that also needs to be featured in films when talking about our Samoan history.
In old Samoan culture the taupou was sheltered indoors and restricted to go outside in the sun. Samoans prized the fair skinned taupous and kept them indoors. This practice faded as the islands were colonized.
Mana Whenua Mana Wahine Toa
❤️💛💚☮️
Beautiful documentary 💯
Its really sad to see that my Fijian people aren't practicing this anymore due to christianity 😥😥
same for Micronesians. 😞
I love our pasefika
Good video
Greetings from Indonesia
along w the dance of life skin artistry is high up there on the list
More research should be done for Papuans in Papua New Guinea as well.
Wow i like
I love the Polynesian culture and the people are very happy and lovely feed they cook gen
The coastal people (motu) of papua New Guinea who built double hull canoes with sails for trade purposes had their ladies tattoo themselves, also along the southern coast of png, the ladies also had tattoos, a practise that had been done for 100s of years. These are people that look more Polynesians.
I'm here..do you know that the Motu people of PNG came from Moturiki island Fiji?..That's why they looked Polynesian because there were three different characteristics of people lived in Fiji in the ancient days accordingly to our verbal history.One of them Looked like the Fijians of today(so called Melanesian s),one looked like the so called Polynesians,Micronesians which had Red Indian type of art on their double hull canoes nd the third type of people had lighter skinned like the Rotumans,Indo Europeans (Greeks,Lebanese,Turkish, Italians..albinos of today). Archaeological findings on Moturiki,Fiji also shows a Polynesian looked womans face after her face had been reconstructed in Japan.The Motu tribes arrival in PNG must be the same migratory patterns which took the Samoa people into the interior of PNG,nd the Korowai tribe.In Fiji we have the Korowaiwai tribe in most islands of Fiji(including Moturiki) nd that old name Samoa land in Wakaya(Lomaiviti) nd the ancient house mound of Dakuisamoa in Nairai..All those islands,Moturiki,Nairai nd Wakaya are in the Lomaiviti group.So as the Fijian names in Maluku islands nd Indonesia at the west of PNG,names like,Bulotu,Pulotu,Bulu,Buli,Buru,Anabau or Babau(East Timor)..There's a spiritual island paradise called Burotukula(reddish orange Burotu)used to be seen floating around the Fiji Islands in the past..It's underwater origin is in Vuniivilevu (south end of Moturiki).And it still has its spiritual guardian cherub on a high sandbank who usually shows up with its big flashes of lights that intiates by flames of fire in dark nights.That is to show us the way if we loose corse at sea towards Moturiki island.
Why do they only have light skinned islanders on? Where are all the beautiful dark skin women?
Maybe it's because most of Polynesians are lightskinned🤷
Racist much
@@chrisa2612 most arent its the mixed who are light skin
This was filmed in NZ. It's a cold country so maybe that had something to do with it.
11:53 Jennifer Farani...absolutely beautiful
The Malu looks so beautiful !!!
My like you full body sexi
AUSTRONESIA!!!!
Mantap
Great. Women are beautiful with their tattoos even more beautiful
Nice culture
Wow
Seka nice moko cuzzy
Samoan Malu. All are beautiful ❤
AMAZING,,, BEAUTIFUL GIRL
Yeah! Filipino cousins! We got a 102-year-old woman from the headhunting days still tattooing visitors.
The voyage to colonise the islands across the pacific seems to have started from the Philippines or Taiwan.
Massive
Aloha, talofa, and rananim to u all in peace and love! 🙏💜🤙
Fijians do not call Tattoos "TATAU"..... its Traditional name is "Samuqawe" or qawe in short.... Not all Fijian Provinces practiced Tattooing only certain few.....
Ask my late Great Grands who share the " i Tukuni" with me.
The "Ring of Fire" countries are all related in regards to Tatau..
Like it conten beautiful tatto 👍👍😎
What are they doing with these haoles?
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Nice polynesia women,nice culture
Hell, yeah. Allot people from island don't do tribal tattoos due the huge influence of foreign countries mostly western countries influences. But Micronesia is coming back to reclaim our ancestors cultures. The way I see all pacific islanders are related.
Waaooo
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Your tattoos mean nothing if you don’t respect and serve your community, especially in traditional matters. If you cannot do these, then you’re just superficial and a showoff.
Saturday - August 22, 2020.
That true culture is important and our History too
Well spoken.