Moko Or Maori Tattooing

This book was published in 1969 (a facsimile of the 1896 edition Chapman & Hall, London) and has 180 b/w illustrations (drawings & photographs). The text has 2 parts : Moko (how moko became known to Europeans; men's moko; women's moko; moko processes & tapu; patterns & designs; operators or artists in moko; mokoed Europeans & mokoed visitors to Europe; moko in legend & song; decadence of moko) & Mokomokai (tradition, history & incidents; methods of embalming; traffic in heads; mokoed heads in museums & collections).