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The Meaning of Ta Tau - Samoan Tattoing
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/the-meaning-of-ta-tau-samoan-tattoing/The word tatau (tattoo) in Samoan means appropriate, balanced and fitting.
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The Meaning of Ta Moko - Maori Tattooing
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/the-meaning-of-ta-moko-maori-tattooing/Ta Moko was like a history of a person's achievements and represented their status in their tribe.
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Tattooing - Earliest examples
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/tattooing-earliest-examples/Tattooed markings on skin and incised markings in clay provide some of the earliest evidence that humans have long practised a wide range of body art.
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Papua New Guinea Scarification
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/papua-new-guinea-scarification/In Papua New Guinea, scarification is usually related to initiation. In the middle Sepik region, it is believed that migrating ancestral crocodiles established human populations.
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Aboriginal Scarification
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/aboriginal-scarification/In Australia, scarring was practised widely, but is now restricted almost entirely to parts of Arnhem Land. Scarring is like a language inscribed on the body, where each deliberately placed scar tells a story of pain, endurance, identity, status, beauty, courage, sorrow or grief.
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Mt Hagen - Papua New Guinea Festival
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/mt-hagen-papua-new-guinea-festival/In the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, self-decoration is associated with festivals and ceremonies where people reinforce their identity as members of a group or clan. One of the most important occasions for ceremonial display is the Mount Hagen Festival.
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Hyperostosis - Swollen Bones
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/hyperostosis-swollen-bones/The enlargement of particular areas of fish bones is known as hyperostosis.
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Year 1836: Captain Cook and Charles Darwin arrived in Sydney
https://australian.museum/about/history/stories/year-1836-captain-cook-and-charles-darwin-arrived-in-sydney/From January to December: a tapestry of events.
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Halimeda, Hot Beds of Biodiversity!
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/halimeda-hot-beds-of-biodiversity/In 1982, Australian Museum researchers studying fish larvae were towing a plankton net near Lizard Island (Research Station).
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North-eastern New South Wales, March 2002
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/ichthyology/north-eastern-new-south-wales-march-2002/For two weeks in March, staff of the Fish Section and volunteers joined forces with Tony Gill of the Natural History Museum, London to sample marine, estuarine and freshwater areas on the north coast of New South Wales.
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