#kirituhi

[gltzpzy]

sza luvs nz so bad omg 🥹💖

[cacodaemonia]

This is an older video but I think it's very relevant to this conversation:

Once were gardeners - Moana Jackson on the scientific method and the 'warrior gene'

Every once in a while I see someone confidently state that mandalorian culture was based on maori culture and, given that legends writer is on the record saying she was thinking of celts and tcw’s writers are on the record saying they were thinking of vikings- is there some other thing I am missing, as my knowledge of SW lore is not comprehensive, or it is exclusively rooted in Tem playing Jango and Boba?

[lordstumpy]

Hey!! I love your Miku! I had a question. Why no tā moko?

Either way, beautiful!!

Kia ora, kia ora! Thanks for the ask, I did answer this briefly in the replies on the original post but I'll reiterate it here so that it's more visible. 🤙🏾 Disclaimer: I am not an expert on tā moko by any means, this is just the reason why I decided against it! My opinion doesn't reflect that of every Māori everywhere. Cool? Alright. The main reason I didn't give her a moko kauae - the womens facial moko, is because only Māori people get them (bar a few, very specific exceptions) - this is the general consensus on all tā moko. They carry extremely significant meaning for the wearer, so I didn't feel it right to put one on this design. (See also 'Kirituhi' if you're interested in digging a little deeper.) The second reason is actually just that I'm not that great at toi Māori (traditional Māori art forms) - that's my dad's gift lol. I'm a do it right or don't do it at all kind of person. There were a couple iterations I had of her with Kirituhi on her arms but I just didn't like the way they were turning out so I axed it. Third and final reason is that not all Māori have tā moko - especially facial moko - moko kauae and mataora. The practice is making a come-back but it's currently not the norm! Even traditionally it wouldn't have been something that everyone received - for one reason or another. I think every other version of Māori Miku I've seen has had a moko kauae, which is fine! Again, this is just how I feel about it - and it's something I chose to do out of reverence. I love that people think they're cool and want to see tā moko more often! There are Māori characters that I'm developing that will have Tā moko, I may have to start chipping away at that story again! Hope this was a fair enough answer :] Nga mihi!

[mwahbabe]

whenever i’m sad i remember sza represented my culture and got a kirituhi(non māori getting ta mōko/māori tattoo) and when she came to my city we gathered around and did a karakia for her before she left and it was so beautiful and she loved and respected our culture and said she would live in nz if she could 🫶🏽biggest flex.

[unwhitewashthebadbatch]

Hello, really appreciate the work you're doing to bring awareness! I was wondering if you have thoughts/resources/suggestions etc. for fic writers who want to portray the clones well. I'm genuinely thinking that adding an author's note might be a good idea, but I'd love to have thoughts on respectfully mentioning the clones' appearance within fic itself. Thank you so much for all you do!

Hi, and thanks!

When it comes to writing, it's sometimes easier to come up with a list of "Dont's" than "Dos". This guide from NaNoWriMo is pretty straight forward!

Of course, there are some caveats: unless this is a modern AU, you can't directly say the clones are Māori because that term doesn't exist in Star Wars. However, this doesn't mean that their features don't! From another character's PoV, you could say they have even brown skin, dark eyes, and dark curly (not coily) hair with broad noses. You can tweak these for your level of prose, such as saying "warm" brown skin or coal-dark eyes/hair--but do NOT use food descriptions, as this is objectifying and dehumanizing. So no "chocolatey" (I have seen this) or anything like that.

Some authors like to code their characters as being from a certain culture, race, or ethnic background. Think of how Temuera Morrison portrayed Boba in The Book of Boba Fett and the Mandalorian, where he proudly put his Māori culture at the forefront of his fight in the latter show. I'm much less versed on the basics of Māori culture and ways of life than I am other cultures, so I personally don't know how to code the clones in the GAR as such. This is where research is important, both in terms of doing your own reading and reaching out to Māori cultural experts if they are willing to explain something.

One thing that I've seen that's quite popular in fics/art is Tā moko, which are the tattoos you may see some Māori with, like this:

However, Tā moko is sacred and, from what I understand, relates specifically to one's ancestors, whakapapa (genealogy, loosely), and rank within society. Non-Māori can use kirituhi. @/tu_edmonds on TikTok/Instagram is a Māori bassist for Alien Weaponry who has Tā moko and also has a video explaining the difference between that and kirituhi. He's also got loads of other good explainers for Māori culture and language.

Physically, don't be scared to make the clones short! Temuera Morrison himself is only 5'7". I don't know why they made the clones six feet. Morrison also has a stockier build, the way a lot of Māori do, so don't be afraid to describe them being bigger and less cut/lean than the 180 lbs they supposedly are in canon (although I refuse to believe that's true because that is incredibly thin).

This might be more than you bargained for, whoops! But these are the basic things I could come up with for describing clones in fics!

There are other ways to support #UnwhitewashTBB, if you like. I've been looking at and supporting @end-otw-racism (highly recommend you support them too!) and people will change the title of their fics or tag there works with #EndOTWRacism, as well as bookmark them/add them to collections? I'm not sure how exactly it works.

But if you or anyone else understands how this works, and your work is explicitly non-racist in nature (and focuses on the clones) I don't see why you can't also tag your work or write an AN that says #UnwhitewashTBB.

Hope this helps!

~ Mod CH

[zebulontheplanet]

Can ask how smart crutch racist?

Hi anon! This is just from my research and the research of others. Anyone is free to correct me if I’m wrong! It was cultural appropriation.

Smart crutches came out with a design named “Māori”. It was a design that featured a kirituhi (I hope I’m using the right words. Please correct me if I’m wrong) design on it. Many Māori people were outraged by this. Not only because the design was named wrong, but because a company was profiting off a design that from everyone’s knowledge, wasn’t made by a Māori person. They gave no credit to the artist to my knowledge, and haven’t even spoken out to explain themselves or rename the design.

Hope this helps! I am simply stating my knowledge. It is important to listen to the voices of others and their cultures.

[ginya-writes]

the style of rhy's tattoos!!!! hello!!?!?! they are so so beautiful!!! is it some degree of polynesian influence? they look very similar to what i've seen of māori or samoan tattoos [flourishes my hands as a way to say please dump about the stylistics choices of his tattoos!]

Ahh thank u for giving me an outlet to info dump about this! You’re totally right. While I was reading the books I’d always pictured his tattoos as Polynesian Kirituhi, partly because of the swirl motifs that are often mentioned but also because Tāmoko and Kirituhi are about telling stories. Often stories of their people and descent, but also of life experiences, which I thought was fitting for the bargain tattoos.

There are so many incredibly beautiful and complex Moko around which I didn’t feel I’d be able to do justice to so I focused on incorporating some key Moko motifs like sharks teeth

And tiki eyes

It’s also why I wanted Feyre’s to be different, as she doesn’t have the same history with the night court the others do. So hers have a more modern style.

I am also not Māori, but I am very interested in tattoo history. So if people with more knowledge than me want to chip in, please do!

[ngakauaroha]

Ohh, yeah.. that makes sense, dang! What did it mean?

That's a little hard to explain. Tā Moko and Kirituhi are highly personalized experiences, they are representative of the individual getting the tattoo and that person's story. O5-10 sat down with the artist and had a discussion about it, I was not part of those discussions, and even if I were, it would not be my story to tell. I know I was part of it, but that is the extent of it.

[ollovae3]

AT LAST. TOOK FOREVER DUE TO IT BEING 50 SOME-ODD DEGREES HERE?? MY HANDS HURT. BUT ITS DONE.

Some younger Boba concepts!! Drew some facial ideas and hair types (and had a BLAST with @cyareclones 's mullet idea??)? Then ran with some more body-centered stuff, with his Holiday Special armor aside scar and tattoo concepts!

[sartorialadventure]

hi! I saw your post on the kirituhi being a way to share culture. based on the way you worded the post, I wanted to check - a non-Maori artist giving another non-Maori person a tattoo inspired by Maori tattoos is NOT kirituhi, right? that's how I understood it at least - a Maori person needs to be either the artist or the person being tattooed for it to be considered kirituhi?

What I understood from the blog post I quoted was that kirituhi COULD be given by a non-Maori artist to a non-Maori person. The blogger, Taryn Beri, is a trained Maori tattoo artist. She states, “Moko is born of Māori culture. If a completed tattoo design is not born of, attached to and expressing that Māori culture, then it can not be correctly termed moko. It can safely be called kirituhi or a Māori style tattoo… There are many non-Māori tattooers around the world that make some lovely tattoo designs (and some not so lovely) inspired by Māori art, and the correct name for such work is kirituhi.” Beri’s big point is not to call a tattoo “moko” when it is really only “kirituhi”, but she uses the term “kirituhi” to include Maori-styled art/tattoos done by non-Maori artists. Make sense?

For anything more technical, I’d ask Beri directly. I’ve been getting a lot of questions about moko and kirituhi, so I must not have made it clear enough in my original post that I was quoting an outside source! I’m not at all an expert on Maori tattooing and am only quoting from the brief Google research I did on the subject. :)

[natenouveau]

I was commissioned to draw this rad halfling with kirituhi from a DnD homebrew

[toiariki]

@zac_partridge #toiariki #moko #tamoko #richiefrancis #tamokorotorua #mokonz #tamokonz #maoritattoo #maori #maoriboyz #maoritiktok #toi #art #tattoomaori #kirituhi (at TOIARIKI Contemporary Ta Moko) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClfHgICPpux/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[loracarol]

TBH, I’m mostly posting this so that I can find the name “kirituhi” again, as that’s deffo a style of tattoo I want some day.

[gystforkickz]

Give this custom a name. The black laces help pull it all together. Toe-toko lol #maori #customjordans #newzealand #kirituhi #soletearoa #lacego https://www.instagram.com/p/CX7A0PJBjr3/?utm_medium=tumblr

[brooklynhctattoos]

#tattoo do meu brotherzao @danandretta 😃🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼 começamos em meados de #2015 e finalizamos recentemente!!! Valeu a confiança ao longo dos anos!!!! #maori #kirituhi #instadaily #ink #inkedmag #tattoositartmagazine #tattoos #tatts #tatuajes #art #artist #artista #instagood #instafamous #tatuagemmasculina #tatuagemfeminina #amazing #tattoo2me #tattooartist #tatuageminspiradora #instatattoo (em Brooklyn Hard-Core Tattoo's) https://www.instagram.com/p/CN4z__DFORp/?igshid=4gffxyzhm9gw

[higginsandco]

Maori kirituhi add on to a rib tattoo I did 3 or 4 years ago. Tribal on bum not by me . #maori #pakeha #kirituhi #freehand #higginsandcotattoo #southcoastpacific #specificpacific #bum #hairybum #mensbum #maoritattoo (at Higgins & Co Tattoo)