Pitt Rivers Museum
Pitt Rivers Museum
Oxford University
Body Arts: Kakau and Batok Talk: Tattoos from Hawaii and the Philippines
20 minutes Posted Aug 15, 2011 at 6:12 pm.
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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.