ContemporaryHeritage · HawaiʻiRegion · Hawai'i
Mike Malone
Tattoo artist, China Sea Tattoo · Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
- Style
- Old-school Hawaiian tattoo lineage
- Regions served
- Hawai'i
- Tradition
- Hawaiʻi tradition →
About Malone’s work
Successor to Sailor Jerry Collins at his Chinatown shop (later China Sea Tattoo). A foundational figure in the modern Hawaiian tattoo scene that produced the current generation of kākau and Polynesian tattooists.
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Sources & citations
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- Wikipedia — Mike Malone (tattooist) ↗en.wikipedia.org
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