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In Polynesia, in the island of Tonga tattooing once symbolized something it symbolized the place that a Tongan held in society. In an article written by Tricia Allen a doctoral candidate in anthropology form the University of Hawaii she talks ....

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... explorer by the name of Dumont dUrville and a few others we would know next to nothing about the art of tattooing in Tonga. Apparently dUrville demonstrated a picture of a Tongan man’s tattoo. Tattoos in Tonga were done with tools made out of bone or shell. One of the tools was heated with a flammable oil that came form a certain type of nut called “Candlenut.” Unlike here in the United States tattooing in Tonga was long and painful. This took a long, long time and was a symbol of someone’s manhood. In the article a man of Tongan and Hawaiian roots named Aisea Toetuu was interviewed. Tracy Allen, the author of this asked him many quest ...