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Ra enge, Fijian noblewoman, tattooed with veiqia (hips, buttocks and upper thighs) and qia gusu (mouth), by Theodor Kleinschmidt. Veiqia [βɛi̯.ᵑɡi.a], or Weniqia, [1] is a female tattooing practice from Fiji, where women who have reached puberty are tattooed in the groin and buttocks area by older female tattooing specialists called daubati or dauveiqia.
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This Is Not a Grass Skirt : On Fibre Skirts (liku) and Female Tattooing (veiqia) in Nineteenth Century Fiji, Sidestone Press, 2019. p.47 with UploadWizard File usage The following 2 pages use this file:
"Kai-noqu" may be used when one Fijian is generally addressing another Fijian that they share the same blood somewhere in their lineage. The term "Vasu" in Fiji refers to an individual's maternal ties to a village, Matagali etc. If a child is of a woman of rank he/she is a Vasu Levu to that particular area.
Joana Monolagi is a Fijian artist and masi maker, whose work is in the collection of Auckland Art Gallery.She was awarded the Pacific Heritage Art Award in 2015 at the Arts Pasifika Awards, recognising her work in supporting art and culture, her role as Fijian coordinator for the Pasifika Festival, and her own unique artistic practice.
The culture of Fiji is a tapestry of native Fijian, Indian, European, Chinese and other nationalities. Culture polity traditions, language, food costume, belief system, architecture, arts, craft, music, dance, and sports will be discussed in this article to give you an indication of Fiji's indigenous community but also the various communities which make up Fiji as a modern culture and living.
A face tattoo or facial tattoo is a tattoo located on the bearer's face or head. It is part of the traditional tattoos of many ethnic groups. In modern times, although it is considered taboo and socially unacceptable in many cultures, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] as well as considered extreme in body art, [ 3 ] this style and placement of tattoo has emerged in ...
Mageʼau Gray is known for her work tattooing Fijian veiqia designs, for example on artists Dulcie Stewart and Luisa Tora, as well as other members of The Veiqia Project. [10] [11] [12] She also the first person in eighty years to tattoo traditional designs in the Mekeo area, that had been discouraged by the colonising activity of missionaries. [6]