The face curiously tataow’d

Sydney Parkinson was the official artist of the Endeavour, captained by James Cook during his first exploration of the Pacific in 1768-1771.  This is a sketch made by Parkinson of one of the Maori chiefs in New Zealand.  In Parkinson's words this the portrait of ‘the head of a chief of New Zealand, the face curiously tataow’d, or marked according to their manner’. The chief has a full facial moko (tattoo), a greenstone tiki around his neck, an ear pendant, and a comb in his topknot.

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From Wikipedia:

The word tattoo, or tattow in the 18th century, is a loanword from the Samoan word tatau, meaning "to strike". The Oxford English Dictionary gives the etymology of tattoo as "In 18th c. tattaow, tattow. From Polynesian (Samoan, Tahitian, Tongan, etc.) tatau. In Marquesan, tatu." Before the importation of the Polynesian word, the practice of tattooing had been described in the West as painting, scarring or staining.