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In Fiji, only women were traditionally tattooed, and this occurred at puberty. In addition the tattoo artist which are called daubati, dauveiqia, dauveisau or matainiqia are always women. iTaukei oral history states that the first woman tattooed was Adi Vilaiwasa, the daughter of the serpent God; Degei. This tattooing took place in a cave located in the Nakauvadra mountain range in the valley of the upper Wainibuka River in Ra. Oral history also states, that Adi Vilaiwasa had gone through this process, due to shedding her scales. The cave was still a sacred place of tattooing in 1886. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620865866588f4630ab35609/1da32a3d-4c83-4199-af52-0eddfe4ecf28/Screenshot+2022-06-25+150110.png The Snake's Trove - Make it stand out -Karen Jacobs from THIS IS NOT A GRASS SKIRT: On fibre skirts (liku) and female tattooing (veiqia) in nineteenth century Fiji https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620865866588f4630ab35609/42520306-5bad-4194-a098-35858ae47600/image0.png The Snake's Trove - Women were tattooed using a batiniqia, an adze-like tool (usually between 12-22cm in length) to which one or more thorns of a lemon tree or a comb of turtle shell or bone, was lashed with their coir strands. In some instances, barracuda or shark teeth, a number of sokisoki porcupine fish spines, rat's teeth (used for Nadarivatu woman) or sewing pins were used. The batiniqia was tapped with a small light stick or small mallet (wau) made of light wood such as Beta. In some Viti Levu hill distrcits vasili (Cordyline terminalis) wood was used, whereas in Lau, where mallets were known as jitolo, hisbiscus wood served the purpose. Cline (1980:7) also recorded the use of a spoon or a stingray tail spike to tap the tattooing tool into the flesh. The variety in materials indicates regional differences, as well as the daubati's resourceful flexibility and creativity while being bound by functionality (Karen Jacobs, 2019)." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620865866588f4630ab35609/4456ddc7-fdaf-4bce-9020-ac298ab195bf/Tattooing.jpg The Snake's Trove - Charles Wilkes, writing around 1840, stated: ‘The women believe that to be tattooed is a passport to the other world, where it prevents them from being persecuted by their own sex, numbers of whom, by command of the gods, would meet them, if not tattooed, and, armed with sharp shells, would chase them continually through the lower regions. 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