STONY BROOK, N.Y., March 5, 2012 â Stony Brook University Hospitalâs Trauma Center has been named one of four trauma centers in New York State with inpatient survival rates for trauma patients that are significantly above the statewide average, according to the latest report from the New York State Trauma System for 2007 to 2009.
1 Tonga: the Tongan tattoo is similar to the Samoan tattoo. 2  The Cook Islands: the tattoo designs of the Cook Islands were spread over the entire body. 3  Each tribe had its own tattoo sign. 4  French Polynesia (Tahiti): traditionally, only people of a high social ranking had tattoos.he Samoan women also had tattoos on their hands. Getting a tattoo in the traditional Samoan way is a real endurance test. Instead of needles, the skin is punctured using a pigâs tooth or sharkâs tooth. Not finishing a tattoo once it is started is a source of shame.
The Maori tattoo artist is called the tohunga ta moko which means moko specialist. These tattooists are highly respected, and considered tapu which means inviolable or holy. Tohunga ta moko were mostly men, but there are a few women who take up the practice.ince the Maori people consider the head to be the most sacred part of the body, the most popular kind of Maori tattoo was the facial tattoo, which was composed of curved shapes and spiral like patterns.