{"id":8038,"date":"2016-09-21T17:23:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T09:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=8038"},"modified":"2016-09-21T17:24:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T09:24:02","slug":"phs-oldest-tattoo-artist-whang-od-to-receive-national-living-treasures-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/phs-oldest-tattoo-artist-whang-od-to-receive-national-living-treasures-award\/","title":{"rendered":"PH&#8217;s Oldest Tattoo Artist Whang-od, to receive National Living Treasures award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">97-year old Kalinga Tattoo Artist Whang-od Oggay is set to receive \u201cGawad sa National Living Treasures\u201d award from the Philippine government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8039\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/09\/WHANG-OD.jpg\" alt=\"whang-od\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>WHANG-OD. The oldest traditional tattoo artist in the Philippines. (Image by Jorge Fernandez, grabbed from bbc.com)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">As the oldest traditional \u201cmambabatok\u201d or tattoo artist in the Philippines, Whang-od Oggay became known for her way of tattooing which is the \u201cbatok,\u201d using ink composed of ink and water mixture, and is being tapped to the skin by using thorns of pomelo or calamansi tree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">According to a Manila Bulletin report, Ferdinand Isleta of the National Committee on Culture and the Arts (NCCA), they are still finalizing the documents for the award to be signed by President Duterte.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Born in Tinglayan, Kalinga, Whang-od is a member of the Butbut tribe who started tattooing when she was 10 years old. At present, she is teaching her grandniece the traditional art of tattooing, the painful method that dates back to a thousand years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mb.com.ph\/kalinga-tattoo-artist-whang-od-to-receive-national-living-treasures-award\/\" target=\"_blank\">Manila Bulletin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mindanation.com\/4952\/kalinga-tattoo-artist-whang-od-receive-national-living-treasures-award\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mind Nation<\/a><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the oldest traditional \u201cmambabatok\u201d or tattoo artist in the Philippines, Whang-od Oggay became known for her way of tattooing which is the \u201cbatok,\u201d using ink composed of ink and water mixture, and is being tapped to the skin by using thorns of pomelo or calamansi tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/09\/WHANG-OD-e1474448613300.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8041,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038\/revisions\/8041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}