Maori Tribal Tattoo Designs

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  Try avoid the most common tattoos or Maori tribal tattoo designs that most people, fashions follow and if you want a Maori tribal tattoo design that is unique to you, then understanding Maori customs and traditions is going to give you a deeper and more meaningful Maori tribal tattoo. 

    If you are thinking of getting Maori tribal tattoo` s you could also consider getting Celtic Irish tattoos, Mexican Gang Tattoos and Tribal Art Designs these all go well with Maori tattoos.  

  Most people like stories or meanings, to me there is nothing more than seeing a cliche tattoo on someone, you see it and you instantly know what it means, there is no intrigue and no conversation about the actual design it is bland, almost like the fast food of the tattoo world, that is why i love tribal tattoo`s and most of all Maori tribal tattoo`s.

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  It is considered a grave insult to Maoris if you have a replica of a tattoo that they have or of someone that they know has, this is why it is more important that if you are going for a Maori tribal tattoo for you to go for something that is totally unique to you.

  Why else get a tattoo that is going to be on your body for a long long time to come, without fully appreciating Maori tribal tattoos and what they mean to the people, the Maori tribes of today?

                                                  There would be no significance what so ever, so please try and get a unique Maori tattoo, obliviously you will not know who is going to have the same Maori tattoo but if you see the same designs in too many shops then i would say its safe to stay away from the Maori tribal tattoo that is seen throughout the internet

So the question might be.... How do you go about not insulting Maoris with Maori tribal tattoo` s?

 This can and is easily avoidable by using striking patterns that swirl and create other patterns, you could make a pattern from a pattern, this would take a Maori tattoo that most people will just see in a shop that they like and turn it into something that is unique to you and you alone when getting a Maori tribal tattoo.

 You can for this Maori tribal tattoo also use thick heavy line`s and create what looks like figures you get in nature, you must realise that the Maori used to rely heavily on the weather and the patterns of their day to survive, from leaving the Polynesian shores to arriving in new Zealand, the weather in terms of clouds, wave types, sand on beaches, and patters that we take for granted in nature were life dependent to the Maori, so you could use you imagination when it comes to choosing these Maori tribal tattoos.

  You do not also need to be confined by shape as you might have thought before but for your Maori tribal tattoo`s you could also have more colors than the usual black, you could have a dark green, brown also you could try to bring in dark orange into the equation to make your Maori tribal tattoo`s more unique to you.

                                                            It is also important to understand the Maori terminology when choosing Maori tribal tattoo`s. Ta moko (literally meaning to strike or tap) was used as a form of identification, rank, genealogy, tribal history, eligibility to marry, and marks of beauty or ferocity amongst Maori tribes of new Zealand even new Zealand in Maori means Aotearoa or land of the long white cloud, this was due to new Zealand having mountainous regions and the snow and cloud above these high peaks.

   The ta moko designs were originally done on the skin and were chizzled into the skin as mentioned in the article Maori tattoo designs.

  There has been a large following of Maori tribal tattoo`s over the last few years mainly due to well known celebrities getting tattoos, like Robbie Williams and mike Tyson getting these Maori tribal tattoo designs, then showing them off to the world

           many of these Maori tribal tattoos that were done on the chiefs and higher ranking officials were done as mentioned over months, the time and preparation to have one of these Maori tribal tattoos was immense, wouldn't it be great if the vast majority of people approached their whole tattooing process like this?

                          As mentioned try not take bits and pieces of Maori culture when getting this Maori tribal tattoo, but instead take the whole Maori tribal tattoo onboard embrace the Maori tribal tattoo, this way it will not be offensive to the originators but when people don't get Maori tribal tattoo`s following these principles, this causes them to be offensive to Maoris when foreigners take bits and pieces of their culture and don't respect what centuries of Maori tribal tattoo`s tradition has shaped and made the Maoris for who they are today.