The instruments that they use for traditional polynesian tattoos is a bone chisel with a sharp edge or serrated. Before the ink was actually placed on the body they begin by wounding the body with deep cuts and after they have mad the cuts they would dip the chisel into the ink. The ink was mad out of burn Kauri gum or burn vegetable caterpillars. Kauri gum is the resin from Kauri trees in new Zealand, and vegetable caterpillars is pretty much explainable. After that then the ink is tapped onto the body where the wounds are.
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Seeing how tattoos were once done sounds so painful. I've seen many documentaries on different cultures and their idea on body art, or as you mention in your posts, "taboo". Some of the instruments used to create amazing tribal tattoos were just like the ones in your image. Some cultures also use the thorns or plants, or even sharped pieces of wood.
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