She says dozens of whanau members turned out to a graduation ceremony last week to support the mums. The Taonga programme is supported by Manukau City Council, Te Puni Kokiri and James Cook High School. posted by Adam 8:55 AM
I should have been in class that week I spent hunting frogs, but I'd been lured from my ecology courses at James Cook University (JCU) by a PhD student named Jodi Rowley (see "Portrait", Cosmos 15, p9). I knew her from her Townsville
Following James Cook's British expedition to Tahiti in 1769, the islanders' term "tatatau" or "tattau," meaning to hit or strike, gave the west our modern term "tattoo." The marks then became fashionable among Europeans, particularly so