Mike Tyson's "warrior" tattoo was inked by Las Vegas tattooist S. Victor Whitmill in 2003. From the time of Tyson's firstpublic appearance with the tattoo, Maori activists and scholars were critical of it as a cultural appropriation of ta moko. Tyson's tattoo is monochrome, curvilinear, features two spiral shapes, and was placed around his left eye. Whitmill has described the "flow": of Maori art as a design influence, and he created it after showing Tyson pictures of Maori moko. In Maori culture, facial moko is a privilege reserved for respected cultural insiders, box and it represents and embodies the wearer's sacred [...]