The payment of the tufuga for doing the job can be made in traditional format. For example, it can be paid by fine mats, food from the plantation, even live stock, or whatever the family of the tattoo recipient may offer; sometimes it depends on whatever the tattoo artist (tufuga) wants.
The other very interesting thing is the payment of the tufuga's wife, known as the meana'itaua. In the Samoan tradition, eventhough she doesn't do anything or not attending this whole process, she is very well paid by the tattoo recipient's family. http://www.tattoo-samoan.com/how-samoan-tattoo-4.html.
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