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Spectrum was a long-running weekly radio documentary series which captured the essence of New Zealand from 1972 to 2016. Alwyn Owen and Jack Perkins produced the series for many years, creating a valuable library of New Zealand oral history.
This Spectrum documentary looks at tattooing, Pakeha and Māori.
Jack Perkins visits a tattooing parlour and speaks with tattoo artists Kevin Gray and Roger Ingerton. Among other things, they discuss the price and popularity of tattoos, and changing fashions in tattoo designs. In the parlour Jack also meets American Navy man Douglas E. Funk, and talks with him as he selects a design and has the tattoo applied.
Then Jack meets 90-year-old Mrs Paeroa Wineera of Porirua and talks to her about moko. She describes the process of applying the moko and explains why she never got one, as her husband disapproved.
Mrs Wineera also plays the kōauau (Māori flute). The programme contains short clips of her playing.