TATTOO ARTISTS
Apia, SAMOA & Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — I lay on the mat of the open-air bungalow in Apia, Samoa, looking up at a gecko. As its tail quivered, I felt a sympathetic twitch in my leg. Su'a Sulu'ape Paulo III, the sixth-generation Samoan hand-tap tattoo master leaning over me, paused to see if...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tattoo artists from Samoa and the United States have had their tattoo kits confiscated by quarantine officers in American Samoa as part of a crackdown.
The Head of Environmental Health, John Fuimaono, said tattoo businesses would now have to undergo inspections to ensure...