Tattoo and Tapa: Reclaiming Pacific Symbols | Frances C. Koya Vaka’uta | TEDxSuva

Frances is a poet and artist passionate about the state of education and development in the Pacific. Her doctorate study explored the heritage art forms of tapa and tattooing in Samoa and Tonga as sites of knowing, learning being and becoming. Frances’s talk encourages us to seriously consider the history and layers of meaning in the cultural motifs and symbols that surround us here in the Pacific. Frances Cresantia Koya Vaka’uta is Associate Dean Research & Internationalization at the Faculty of Arts,