Arekatera “Katz” Maihi can vividly recall the sickening stench of smoke and harrowing echo of family members’ cries as his tribal house in Auckland, New Zealand, went up in flames in the middle of the ...

His experience is a marked departure from that of his parents and grandparents, who grew up at a time when the practice was ...

The body art which is carved into the skin using chisels and called moko, represent a Maori person’s links with their family and cultural identity. So when Sally Anderson, a caucasian, blonde life ...

Social media platform Snapchat has removed a feature which allowed users to apply traditional Maori tattoos on their faces. The filters were pulled after their discovery prompted an outcry in New ...

The Rautenstrauch Joest Museum of world cultures in Cologne returned a tattooed Maori skull, which has been in its collection for 110 years, to a delegation representing the Museum of New Zealand Te ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - On Christmas Day, veteran New Zealand journalist Oriini Kaipara made history. She is her country’s first news anchor to host a national primetime broadcast sporting ...

Rihanna's new tattoo was etched onto her hand with a hammer. The Stay singer chose to mark her recent trip to New Zealand by getting a traditional Maori design inked onto her right hand using the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A good way to decompress? A new video has been posted of Rihanna getting a traditional Maori ...

The tattooists bent over Kingi Taurua for 15 hours, using chisels and a stick as a hammer to gouge bold Maori designs into his bloodied face, buttocks and legs. The tattooists bent over Kingi Taurua ...

Meet the Explorer: Taryn Beri is an independent tā moko practitioner in Wellington and a member of the Ngāti Toarangatira tribe of the Wellington Region, North Island, Aotearoa, New Zealand. The ...