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The story of my ancestors was written in the marks on our bodies and told around meals cooked in an underground oven then shared with the rest of our people over laughs. We had elders who spoke to us in the tongues of our forefathers. From them we learned our myths, legends and cosmologies. Our words played with nature, and the patterns we etched into our skins retold our memories. These marks connected lineages throughout the ages.
The Rotuman culture is rich in community, land, the spiritual and the physical. Various factors from colonialism to Christianity have left generational legacies that clash with Indigenous knowledges. Often such clashes leave cultural practices, like that of the Rotuman tattoo, on peripheries of a history. In between survival in a Western-modern world and the need to retain cultural knowledges sit the marks of status, history and creation: tattoos.
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