Thirty centuries of Samoan tattooing have been chronicled in a new book Tatau, released earlier this month. Te Papa curator Sean Mallon and French anthropologist Sebastien Galliot collaborated on the book. Sebastien's ethnographic field work complemented Samoan-New Zealand Sean's knowledge of the global context of tatau.
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