Polynesian tattoos were discovered round the year 1595 by Spanish Explorers but, they were not mentioned until the late 1600s by European Captains Samuel Wallis and Captain Cook. Wallis noticed in the year 1767 that there was some formality between women and men getting markings on their thighs and buttocks. Bougainville noticed in 1768 there was a difference in the women in tahiti which had used dark blue ink to make the markings on their loin and buttocks. In 1774 Captain Cook realized the people with these markings on their body called them tattow which tat means to tap and tow means to mark. Thats how we got the word tattoo.
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