The Tourism Decade | The Oldest Tattoo Artist

Whang-Od started tattooing at age fifteen. Eighty-seven years later, she’s still practicing traditional Kalinga tattooing in Buscalan. She and her apprentices carry out the thousand-year-old batok tattooing for people who come from far and wide to pay a visit. Watch as Whang-Od shares stories from her life, and how the resurgence of Kalinga tattooing effected positive change in her community.