The Aranui 5 is a passenger-freighter vessel that makes 14-day voyages between Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands. James D. Morgan/Getty Images Born on the 40-square-mile island of Ua Pou in the ...

Hi! I'm Morgan, and I'm a 30-year-old Samoan woman. Morgan Sloss / BuzzFeed Even if you don't know much about Samoan culture, you've likely seen or heard about our tattoos. Fun fact: the English word ...

"I am so proud and grateful to be carrying this kakau (tattoo); truly feeling more whole," she wrote. "As I spend more and more time away from home, having my Mauna Kea, manu, and nihotaniwha remind ...

From Justin Bieber to Miley Cyrus, it's hard to remember a time before these celebrities were covered in body art.

The filmmakers behind Moana put in plenty of effort to make the film as culturally accurate as possible. To tell the tale of Disney's first Polynesian hero, the animation giant formed the Oceanic ...

MONTEREY >> Marlo Kaleookalani Lualemana is an artist. Her canvas is human skin. Here tools are a bright orange Sharpie pen, a red Bic pen, ink and a vibrating needle. The Salinas resident is among a ...

A set of four tiny combs from the Polynesian kingdom Tonga might be among the world's oldest tattoo kits. The tools had been sitting in storage in an Australian university for decades. A team of ...