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Su'a Sulu'ape Peter
Tufuga tā tatau · Auckland, Aotearoa
- Style
- Hand-tap tatau
- Regions served
- Aotearoa (New Zealand)
- Tradition
- Samoa · Aotearoa tradition →
About Peter’s work
Brother of Paulo II, working from Aotearoa. Widely credited with training a generation of Pacific tufuga and profiled across Te Papa and academic studies of contemporary tatau.
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Sources & citations
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- Wikipedia — Sulu'ape family of tattooists ↗en.wikipedia.org
- Te Papa — Tatau: Marks of Polynesia ↗tepapa.govt.nz
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