When Hira Hona decided to tattoo half his face, he didn’t even think to ask his employer for permission. It simply wasn’t necessary. The 35-year-old is the principal of a Māori immersion primary school in Tauranga — on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island — where the centuries-old practice of facial tattoos is deeply understood and accepted. “We’re in a new world,” Hona tells SBS News. “It would go against every principle, every value of our kura, of our school, if they were to question it.”
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