Taia o moko, hai hoa matenga mou. Only death can deprive you of your moko. It will be your ornament and your companion until your dying day. The Christchurch Arts Festival in association with ...

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 ...

Singer Rihanna has upped the extreme celebrity stakes by having a Maori tattoo etched onto her hand...with a chisel and mallet. To mark her recent trip to New Zealand, the singer added to her body art ...

As a lasting reminder of the New Zealand leg of her world tour, Rihanna got a traditional Maori tattoo on her hand before she left the country. Watch below. The 'Diamonds' singer stopped by a local ...

We already knew Rihanna was a tough cookie, but it wasn't until we watched this video of her having a new tribal tattoo that we realised she's as hard as flippin' nails! The singer hardly even winced ...

Master carver and tattooist Heemi Te Peeti, pictured with Takarea Te Peeti, gives a live demonstartion of ta moko at Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom at the weekend. Paora Hurihanganui was getting ta moko.

"It started at 5 o'clock in the morning and it didn't finish until 8 o'clock at night and so it was continuing all the time," Taurua said. "They asked me if I wanted a break and I said no, because it ...

Local reporting is vital to a thriving and connected community. Help us keep telling Wellington's stories by making a contribution. Michael Bradley hopes an obsolete photographic technique that erases ...