Motuan Pride

Tattoos are part of our identity it is the female that do the tattooing. All Motuan have different tattooing pattern , that we can identify which motuan village they come from . Leg Tattooing Arm Tattoos Back Tattooing

Hiri Lakatoi (Multi -hulled Canoe) Hiri  is the name for the traditional  trade  voyages that formed an important part of the culture of the  Motu people  of  Papua New Guinea . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiri_trade_cycle Origins The Motu live in a comparative  rain shadow  – the  dry season  is unusually harsh, and there are not enough suitable areas for the growing of  sago  ( rabia ). On the other hand, the Motu, unlike most people of Papua New Guinea, were skilled in the art of making  clay  cooking pots ( uro ). The traditional Hiri voyages carried the much-prized Motu cooking pots to the people of the  Gulf of Papua , and brought back plentiful supplies of sago for the Motu. Legend Edai Siabo, from the village of Boera, was returning from a fishing trip when a great eel appeared and dragged him under the water. The eel was really the spirit of the sea. He returned Edai to the surface of the sea, after instructing him to build a great lagatoi ( sailing cano