Hi Everyone!!
Please look at the pictures below.
The Tatau is for a man and the malu is for a woman. The Samoan tatau and the malu are believed to be equally important and have similar reasons. However, the tatau (pe'a)means flying fox and refers to the dark charcoal colour of the tattoo. Moreover, as mentioned before, it has lots of motifs with various meanings and is tattooed from underneath arm ribcage down towards the knees. But for a malu, which means to be protected and sheltered, most of the elements of the designs are purely ornamental and is tattooed from the knees up to the legs.
Please look at the pictures below.
According to what I have explained above, which one do you think is a tatau and which one is a malu?
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2 comments:
I can see it clearly that right side of legs is malu!
They are both the tatau. The mans is properly called the Pe'a, and the womans is called the Malu. They are applied by the ancient art of Samoan Tatau.
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