David Bateman, Auckland, New Zealand, 2008.

Hardcover.

Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine.

Michael King New Zealand, 2008 Edition.

Dust Jacket with120 pages.

A very good clean copy.

Illustrated throughout this copy with b&w photographs and drawings

Moko: Maori tattooing in the 20th century. Michael King and Marti Friedlander travelled together through the hinterland of New Zealand in 1970 to find and speak with those who were tattooed, or with people who had first-hand knowledge of the custom. King located 71 women who had been given the moko under traditional circumstances, and many of this unique group of Maori women were able to be interviewed and photographed. For some, their moko dated back into the last years of the nineteenth century and was applied in the traditional way, with a chisel; others were part of a brief resurgence in the art in the 1930s and 1940s, where needle tattooing was more common.