TATTOOING for the Indigenous people is a sign of identity, beauty and skill in warfare. In my public history talks, I ...

Whang-Od hails from a remote mountain tribe in the hills of northern Kalinga province. Her artistry has seen her credited with "single-handedly keeping an ancient tradition alive". Using just a ...

In a small town called Buscalan, surrounded by rice fields in the north of the Philippines, lives the worlds oldest tattoo ...

Filipina tattoo artist, Apo Whang-Od, has been described as the 'last mambabatok' from the Kalinga tribe in the Philippines' Cordillera mountains. The 106-year-old Whang-Od is Vogue's oldest cover ...

The Kalinga tribe of the Cordillera region has been known for having in their community possibly the oldest mambabatok, who we all know to be Apo Whang-od. Yet, some are wondering whether she ...

Whang-Od Oggay With a foot-long bamboo stick embedded with a thorn plucked from a calamansi citrus tree, the Philippines’ oldest and last “mambabatok” (traditional Kalinga tattooist ...

“The traditional Kalinga tattoo design was integrated in a more subtle way, as a nod to the legendary icon, Whang Od., and as a representation of our indigenous peoples; a merging of tradition a ...