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Stage 1 of 2
tatau
Tahitian/Samoan · pre-1700s
"to strike, to mark"
described the traditional Polynesian practice of skin marking
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Stage 2 of 2
tattoo
English · 1769
"a permanent skin marking made by puncturing and inking"
recorded by Captain James Cook's crew in Tahiti
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