Hi! I'm Morgan, and I'm a 30-year-old Samoan woman. Morgan Sloss / BuzzFeed Even if you don't know much about Samoan culture, you've likely seen or heard about our tattoos. Fun fact: the English word ...

This article is brought to you by Travel Samoa. Samoan culture is steeped in tradition, from delicious food and melodious song to the extraordinary tattoos with which both the men and women of this ...

Small arrows, birds and stars adorn the tops of the soldier’s hands and fingers. Etched into her skin from the wrists up to her nail beds, the markings are no ordinary tattoos, but symbols of ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Sunshine Coast. Followed categories will be added to My News. Tap, tap, tap. The unmistakable wood-on-wood sound stops momentarily as white-gloved hands use a ...

I lay on the mat of the open-air bungalow in Apia, Samoa, looking up at a gecko. As its tail quivered, I felt a sympathetic twitch in my leg. Su’a Sulu’ape Paulo III, the sixth-generation Samoan ...

Yesterday marked a monumental moment in cultural history as Tūhura Otago Museum hosted the world’s first-ever public demonstration of traditional Samoan tattooing in a museum setting. The event, which ...

The King grimaced as he watched a woman undergo the arduous process of receiving a traditional Samoan tattoo on her leg. Professional tattooist John Lemisio introduced the King to his lineage of ...