
The skivvy malanos is a Tauron table lamp, used as a social and religious artifact center to their inking ceremonies, such as Ink Day. The lamp is used to heat up the hand poke and stick tattoo tool in order to tattoo marks of significance.
In 88 BCH (12YR), William Adama Sr. uses their skivvy malanos, an Adama family heirloom, to ink Joseph Adama for his Ink Day. Later, Joseph inks his own brother, Samuel Adama, in a tent after being displaced as a result of their parents terminal altercation with a Heracleides squad (CAP: "The Dirteaters").
Later, in 58 BCH (42YR), a skivvy malanos is used to ink Joseph and Samuel Adama; Joseph as formal indoctrination into the Ha'la'tha, and Samuel as his ascent into a leader of the Ha'la'tha (CAP: "The Dirteaters").
The lamp is later used circa 53 BCH (47YR) in the Ink Day ceremony of William Adama (CAP: "Apotheosis").