Polynesian Tattoo: A Shift in Meaning

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We Don't Fabricate, We Weave: Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) and Ngarrindjeri women’s resistance
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Reclaiming the Rock in Project Banaba: Creativity, survival and agricultural colonialism in the Pacific
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Lipstick and Land Rights: A poetic response
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Lorna Munro

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Woven Selves, Entangled Countries: Weaving across borders
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Dameeli Coates

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Sovereign city, sovereign self and Warrior Woman Lane
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Hayley Millar Baker

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Sovereign Sight: Intersections of the historical archive and artistic practice—a curatorial perspective
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Kimberley Moulton

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Tattoo played a significant role as a marker of status, wealth, and pride in Polynesian societies. A more fluid, creative tattoo tradition is being practised today.

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