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The drawing above is by Theo Schoon THE MAORI ART OF MOKO by Margaret Orbell The art of moko—or tattoo, to use the pakeha word—has almost disappeared. It is two or three generations now since men wore its proud marks on their faces, and there are few women left now—probably, none of them are under fifty—who have a moko. As the moko becomes rarer, and as the faces on which it is worn become older, it grows all the time more remote from modern life. These