The Aranui 5 is a passenger-freighter vessel that makes 14-day voyages between Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands. James D. Morgan/Getty Images Born on the 40-square-mile island of Ua Pou in the ...

“Tattourism” ― or tattoo tourism ― refers to the practice of traveling with the intention of getting a new tattoo in a ...

It began its worldwide influence, many say, when Western sailors arrived on the Polynesian islands and began getting hula girls tattooed on their arms, enchanted by the movement of the art, which ...

Tattooing goes back millennia and spans cultures, as evidenced by mummified remains, yet many details of the body modification's origins have been shrouded in mystery. Now an ancient bone tattoo kit ...

MILILANI, Hawaii, Dec. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Patch of Shade, Inc, the creator of the NĀ KOA® line of leather goods (www.nakoa.com) further expanded its best-selling Kaulele Collection – a line of ...

Talavou Fitisemanu, a Tongan-Samoan student at BYU, struggled to manage his Polynesian art business while playing Division I football, until he decided to step away from sports last summer and invest ...

On July 13, 1869, the French warship Jerome-Napoleon crossed the Arctic Circle north of Norway. Among the crew was an excitable sailor gawking at the fjords and icebergs, craving adventure and ...

Continuum Arts offers a tattoo studio that showcases guest artists; an art gallery space with rotating exhibitions; an education space for studio classes, seminars and workshops by artists from across ...

Tattooing goes back millennia and spans cultures, as evidenced by mummified remains, yet many details of the body modification's origins have been shrouded in mystery. Now an ancient bone tattoo kit ...