*hm* I understand your objection, but for us it really isn’t a souvenir. We both want to know how it feels to be tattooed as it is made hundreds of years before: In a fale, using shark teeth, made by a tattooist who learned from his ancestors and can tell us the story about the “tatau”. It’s an experience we want to make. Maybe now you take my point!

Yes, that’s what we’re looking for! I know that we don’t have to travel that far to get it tapped in – but we want it to be made by a Samoan… 🙂