Rotuman cultural tattoo, the fạ’i, was once a thriving artform woven into Rotuman essence. Men and women have had their bodies graced with patterns and motifs that reflected the lifestyle. With missionisation and the heavily influences of Western colonisation, the fạ’i slowly declined from everyday practice. Since Rotumans call the physical world the Rȧn Te’Isi and the spiritual world where the ancestors live the ‘Oroi ta, my hanuju proposes that the fạ’i was a cultural aspect that tethered the Rotumans to their ancestral plane, and therefore is not a lost practice, but one that exists in the ‘Oroi.