Da Mix-Plate of South Seas Inspired Tattoos

Kauai is made up of many diverse and unique cultures. The sugar plantation days of old brought many cultures to this small island in the middle of the Pacific. From Japan to the Philippines from Hawaii to Aotearoa and from Samoa to Tahiti.  The local dialect “pigeon” is also a result of many different cultures sitting around a fire trying to communicate with each during the sugar plantation days. This is why you can hear Hawaiian, Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, and mainland American words in one conversation.

This is why I call this page Mix-plate. The mix of designs mirrors our diversity on Kauai.

Aloha

Tattoo by Samuel Shaw. Kulture Tattoo Kollective
Tattoo by Samuel Shaw. Kulture Tattoo Kollective
Tattoo by Samuel Shaw. Kulture Tattoo Kollective
Tattoo by Samuel Shaw. Kulture Tattoo Kollective
Tattoo by Samuel Shaw. Kulture Tattoo Kollective
Samuel Shaw at Kulture Tattoo Kollective
Filipino and Hawaiian
Filipino meets South Seas
solid lines
A shoulder addition
not the best pic but still flowing
Those Hooks
power black
Brothers
Brothers
When Samoa meets Japanese body armor pt. 2
Tattoo by Samuel Shaw
MIxed Tahitian & Marquesas style in Holland
Filipino, Hawaiian, Samoan, and Maori mash up pt.2
Freehand in Holland pt.3
Mixed Polynesian at Kulture Tattoo
Done while I was in Holland.
Poly style letters at it again
Freehand in Holland pt.1
Freehand mixed Polynesian
Filipinio, Hawaiian, Samoan, and Maori mash up pt.1
Mixed Polynesian style tattoo by Samuel Morgan Shaw
Freehand Tahitian & Marquesas style done in Holland
Maori Tamoko style with Samoan kine shaded patterns
Added to this Ikaika helmet. Done by another artist. I added the Samoan art around it
Freehand Tahitian, Marquesas, and Samoan mix plate
Tattoo by Samuel Morgan Shaw
Samoan based modern style
modern tribal, cover up meets up in Tahiti
A mash up of Samoan and Filipino styles
Mixed Polynesian style tattoo by Samuel Morgan Shaw
Another king of the Pueo
Freehand arm tattoo while I was in Holland
Hawaiian and Marquesas Boar hunta!!
When a koi gets tattooed in Hawaii
Mixed Polynesian style tattoo by Samuel Morgan Shaw
When A koi meets Lauhala
Mix Plate special freehand pt.1
When modern tribal gets evolved
A fun freehand Samoan style leg tattoo
A shark tattoo with mixed Polynesian designs
Hawaiian and Maori Tamoko
Hawaiian and Tahitian mashup
Mix-plate freehand at the Portland Tattoo Expo
Mixed Polynesian style tattoo by Samuel Morgan Shaw
Freehand mixed Polynesian in Holland pt.2
Hawaiian and Filipino Patterns pt. 2
Tamoko and Samoan mixed
Mixed Polynesian style tattoo by Samuel Morgan Shaw
Mixed Polynesian style tattoo by Samuel Morgan Shaw
Mixed Polynesian style tattoo by Samuel Morgan Shaw
A traditional panther with a South Seas Polynesian touch. Tattooed on my good friend and fellow tattooer. Gina Skarkino
Tattoo by Samuel Shaw
Samoa meets Hawaii mash up modern style
Got to freehand some mixed POlynesian tattoos around some graffiti tattoos that were not done by me. Fun collar
Hawaiian and Marquesas
Filipino, Marquesas, and Hawaiian
Filipino and small kine Samoan patterns
Mix plate style I did in Holland
Need I say Anything??
Freehand tamoko & Marquesas style
Freehand Samoan and Tahitian style
Fijian Tapa & Japanese windbars
Maori tamoko, Tahitian and Samoan
When Japan and Polynesia collide
Mostly Filipino patterns here pt.1
Freehand on my friend Nick and the guy making my shirts
Maori Tamoko and the Rose for his daughter
Maori Tamoko, Hawaiian and Samoan
Freehand mix plate style done in Holland
Freehand mixed Polynesian Shark
Freehand tattoo done in one session at Kulture Tattoo
Maori/Marquesas/Tongan
Holland style back peice
Aumaukua
Small kine Hawaiian and mostly Filipino patterns pt. 3
Freehand Japanese waves and Samoan style lettering
Long live the Dutch!! Holand Style
freehand tattoo. Mixed Polynesian..its a mix plate of Kulture
Lauhala lettering always does the job
Paulos’ Tako (didnt do the dolphins)
Fun tattoo done on my friend Kai. Kauai Maile Mokihana lei with mixed Polynesian tattoo
MAcy and his new mixed Polynesian hookup
Mix Plate special freehand pt.2
Maori tamoko mixed with Hawaiian fishscales and Maile..Kauai Style
Modern Samoan Freehand on my good friend Erik
Freehand mixed Polynesian in Holland pt.1
Moari and Samoan mash up in a modern style
Freehand tattoo that I made on my friend Kai. Kauai maile mokihana lei with mixed Polynesian
Marquesas style
A Nordic design meets Polynesia
Dotwerk in the tamoko fashion. I didnt do the inricate black work
Braddah Nicks’ mixed Polynesian tattoo
Hawaiian and Tahitian/Marquesas
Mix plate style
Freehand on Kauai
Older 2005 freehand of Tamoko and small kine Samoan
When Samoa meets Japanese body armor pt.1
Tamoko and Hawaiian
The Pueo of all Pueo
The anagram mix plate special