lucaskenton:

Tattoo, Lucas right from the start hated tattoo’s. This tattoo though is different he hasn’t shown anyone yet, he has this it’s important to note that while he was away for a month visiting where he had this arm/chest piece done is where he went off to. (He left the country completely).

The tatau process for the pe’a is extremely painful, and undertaken by tufuga ta tatau (master tattooists), using handmade tools of bone, tusks, turtle shell and wood. The tufuga ta tatau are revered masters in Samoan society. In Samoan custom, a pe’a is only done the traditional way, with aspects of cultural ceremony and ritual, and not with European tools or needles. The tufuga ta tatau works with one or two assistants, often apprentice tattooists, who stretch the skin and wipe the excess ink and generally support the tattooist in their work. The process takes place with the subject lying on mats on the floor with the tattooist and assistants beside them. The assistants to the tattooists are referred to as the solo, a Samoan word describing the act of wiping the blood off the skin. Family members of the person getting the tattoo are often in attendance at a respectful distance to provide words of encouragement, sometimes through song. The pe’a can take less than a week to complete or in some cases, years.

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