A framed picture of the Harp family at Legoland hangs among the dozens of Polynesian tattoo sketches and art on the walls at the Hawaiian-owned-and-operated Pacific Rootz at 1847 S. Kihei Road.

Skin Stories first travels to Samoa, visiting the International Tattoo Convention, bringing Samoans together with U.S. "mainlanders" and others from around the globe in a celebration of the art of ...

In the US, it is a commercial art where you go into a tattoo parlor and pick something off the wall. But in Samoa and New Zealand you couldn't get a tattoo without permission from certain people such ...