It is a cultural meeting that appeals to residents and tourists! The Mahana Pae is celebrated every first Friday every month and this time it is the art of tattooing that is highlighted. The patterns, the tools used, the different styles adopted by tattoo artists. Tattooing has evolved over time.
LE’S CAN, L‘History of Maohi tattooing … The tools and accessories used by the ancestors formerly and today attract many visitors to the pedestrian street of Tahiti Tourisme. This event is organized every last Friday of the month by the establishment.
Six tattoo artists where the Tatau Maohi have been holding a stand that has not been full since its opening this morning. On the table, the whole range of tools that illustrates the chronology of tattooing tools used over the decades.
-“We had the combs, then in the 1970s and 80s the tattoo artists were made machines from electric battery razor. Then, we have electric dermographers which were especially imported during the United States. Today, we have modern battery and rotary batteries.”
Manu Farrarons – Tattoo artist and co -president of the Polynesian Artists and Tattoo artists Committee
Also on site, a musical animation, a procedure for demonstration of pareo paint or tapa making. The next Mahana Pae will be organized on June 6 by Tahiti Tourisme and this time highlights the different Himenes of the archipelagos.
