1. (noun) tattooing on the buttocks.
He tangata māia a Te Pahi, e tata ana te ono putu tōna roa, kua mokoia katoatia te kanohi, me ngā rape, ko tōna tū ko te tū a te rangatira (TTR 1990:241). / Te Pahi was a resolute man, nearly six feet tall, with full face and buttocks moko, and the stature of a chief.
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