Batok (traditional tattoos): A revival here and elsewhere
Beyond physical beauty, tattoos represent inner strength and character that one carries to the grave and the afterlife.
Source: verafiles.org
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Beyond physical beauty, tattoos represent inner strength and character that one carries to the grave and the afterlife.
The United States government is set to complete next month a research and documentation project on traditional tattooing among the seven major ethnolinguistic groups in the mountainous region of the Cordilleras. (Elderly tattooed women, on an afternoon tengao (rest day) in Bontoc, described their