Tonga has long stood as the cultural and navigational bridge between Samoa and Fiji. Through shared ancestry, trade, and traditions, Tonga became the glue that unified the western Polynesian triangle and was the door between both Melanesian and Polynesian worlds. Tonga historically absorbed and projected influence both ways making it the most blended and connective of the three I know I’ll take heat for the part regarding tattoo origin, but it’s important to think about what the message is here.
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