Pat-ik (carved piece of wood used in tattooing)
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Carved piece of wood, tapping stick, pat-ik, used in tattooing.
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Creator
Whang-ud
Subject
Tattooing, Body art
Date
Date made: 2009
Type
Tattoo accessory, Body art
Identifier
2011.102.2
Origin
Tabuk, Lubagan, Kalinga, North Luzon, Philippines
Materials
Wood, pigment, charcoal
Process: Carved.
Process: Carved.
Physical Dimensions
Length: max 310 mm
Provenance
Analyn Salvador-Amores.
Field collector: Analyn Salvador-Amores
Field collector: Analyn Salvador-Amores
Acquisition Date
3 October 2010
Short description
The donor of the T-shirt features on the Pitt Rivers Museum's Body Arts web pages. In her documentary Kakau and Batok Talk: Tattoos from Hawaii and the Philippines at the conclusion of her fieldwork in the mountains of northern Luzon in the Philippines, anthropologist Analyn Salvador-Amore filmed an encounter with Hawaiian tattoo practitioner Keone Nunes and a Butbut tattoo practitioner Whang-ud. The conversations reveal a deep connection with traditional tattooing practices from Polynesia to the Philippines.
See: http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/bodyarts/index.php/multimedia/video/137-kakau-and-batok-talk-tattoos-from-hawaii-and-the-philippines.html to view the documentary. [FC 24/08/2011]
See Dphil Thesis 'Tapping Ink, Tattooing, Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Kalinga Society, 2011, Analyn Salvador-Amores, p.75 "Gisi (Tattoing instruments)... In many tattooing sessions I observed, the tapping frequency was about 90-120 taps per minute with a continuous tapping of the skin. Whang-ud would stop for a few seconds to replenish the ink at the tip of the thorn. It would take an hour or more to tattoo a design. It takes a day to finish full sleeve tattoos on one arm, and another day for the other arm. The chest and back tattoos of the men is a lengthy process that takes place at different points in their life..." [FB 30/11/2011]
SOAS Journal article 'Batok (traditional tattoos) in diaspora: the rienvention of a globally mediated Kalinga identity', 2011, Analyn Salvador-Amores.
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Not on display
References
See: http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/bodyarts/index.php/multimedia/video/137-kakau-and-batok-talk-tattoos-from-hawaii-and-the-philippines.html to view the documentary. [FC 24/08/2011]
SOAS Journal article 'Batok (traditional tattoos) in diaspora: the rienvention of a globally mediated Kalinga identity', 2011, Analyn Salvador-Amores. [FB 30/11/2011]
SOAS Journal article 'Batok (traditional tattoos) in diaspora: the rienvention of a globally mediated Kalinga identity', 2011, Analyn Salvador-Amores. [FB 30/11/2011]
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Whang-ud, “Pat-ik (carved piece of wood used in tattooing),” Mapping Philippine Material Culture, accessed April 16, 2024, https://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/items/show/27913.
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