in 2017 Sake obtained the Samoan tatau for women - known as "malu" - on her legs before adding the traditional tattoos to her hands in 2022. Tattoos have long served more than a skin-deep purpose ...

12.Moana comes back to life with a tattoo on her hand. In Samoa, it's called a tualima, and it includes the same markings used in the malu, which is the women's equivalent of the pe'a. I only saw ...

"The marks we choose to wear are the clues to the mystery of ourselves," opens the program, setting the tone for the explanation of tattoo, known as tatau in Samoa, the birthplace of tattoo.