Note on drawing of puhoro tattoo

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Note on drawing of puhoro tattoo

But women are done with buttock
and thigh tattoo,
as well as the lips.

Thigh and buttock; this is it.
Rough handling, bumping, ulcer, infection,
these things cause the thing, tattoo,
to go bad,
for all tattoo as well.

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Title: Sir George Grey N.Z. Maori MS. 89

Author: Wiremu Marsh Te Rangikaheke

Editor: David Roy Simmons

Part of: The Moko Texts Collection

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