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[Note - S = Samoan; M = Maori; H = Hawaiian]
Aiga — extended family (S)
Ala Niho — leg stripe tattoo design lit. tooth path (H)
Alaka'i — guide or leader (H)
Ali'i — sacred chiefs (S,H)
'Ama'u — a fern that grows up in the uplands (H)
Aotearoa — "Land of the Long White Cloud" (Maori name for the North Island of New Zealand)
Ariki — sacred chiefs (M)
Au — special tattooing comb (S)
'Aumakua — ancestral guardian spirit (H)
'Aumakua Pueo — an Hawaiian ancestral guardian that manifests as an owl
'Awa or 'Ava — Piper methysticum; a plant in the pepper family; a narcotic drink made from the roots of this plant (H)
Fue — fly whisk (S)
Halau — schools (H)
Hale Mua — the first formal institute of learning in which a Hawaiian male enters
Hapu — sub-tribe (M)
Hulu Pueo — the feathers of the owl (H)
Inu 'Awa — to drink 'awa (H)
Kahuna — a master artist, artisan, or craftsman (H)
Kakau — (v.) traditional Hawaiian art of tattooing
Kapu — taboos (H)
Kauä — a class of Hawaiian outcasts (H)
Kava — Piper methysticum; a plant in the pepper family; a narcotic drink made from the roots of this plant; also 'ava, 'awa, or kavakava
Koru — spiral - a common design in Maori tattooing, carving and other arts
Kuleana — responsibility, privilege (H)
Lima — tattoos on the hands (S)
Mai'a — a fruit that has seeds, but doesn't grow from seeds; banana (H)
Malu — tattoo on a woman's thighs (S)
Mana — a person's spiritual power or life force
Matai — a person with a chiefly title (S)
Moko — traditional tattoo art (M)
Moko Kauae — woman's chin moko
Moku O Keawe — a poetic name for the island of Hawai'i
Nahiri — spiritual plane
Pahupu — an elite company of Hawaiian warriors from Maui
Pakeha — white people
Pala'ai — coward
Pe'a — an intricate tattoo that covers the body from mid-torso to the knees (S)
Pe'ahi Niu — crescent fan; Hawaiian tattoo design based on the fan
Pitau — unfurling fern frond; Maori spiral design based on the fern
Pito — belly button; Maori spiral design based on the belly button
Pounamu — New Zealand jade, Nephrite jade; commonly called Greenstone
Pueo — the Hawaiian owl
Puhoro — an intricate Maori tattoo extending from mid-torso to the knees, which featured the characteristic design of a spiral on the buttock
Pule — a prayer, to pray (H, S)
Siva — traditional Samoan dance
Ta Moko — the process of tattooing
Ta' Rapanui — traditional tattoo art
Tanoa — 'ava bowl (S)
Tatatau — Tongan traditional tattoo art
Tatau — Samoan traditional tattoo art
Teorewai — a Maori tribe whose name means "to gently swivel the water so that it ripples and splashes just a little."
Te Waipounamu — "The Greenstone Waters" (Maori name for the South Island of New Zealand)
Tohunga — a master artist, artisan, or craftsman (M)
To'oto'o — orator's staff (S)
Tufuga — a master artist, artisan, or craftsman (S)
Tulafale — talking chiefs (S)
Uhi — Maori tattoo chisel, sometimes serrated; (n.) Hawaiian traditional tattoo art
Wananga — a gathering, often for educating others (S)
Whakapapa — one's genealogy (M)
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