Patutiki
Te Henua · Ink Atlas Lecture
The Marquesan Body Grid

Read the skin
as archive.

A field guide to patutiki — the tiki faces, enata figures and banded grids that turned candlenut charcoal into the densest written language ever worn.

This is the Marquesan Tatu Pattern design system, applied by Curio Design — a design-style library for AI agents. Full Marquesan Tatu Pattern guide → designbycurio.com/learn/marquesan-tatu-tiki-pattern