Week 1: What is Batok?
Greetings/Talk Story
Check-In
Greetings/Talk Story
Check-In
- Ancient Filipino Hand-Tapped Tattooing video on YouTube
- "Cultural tattooing is a ritual. There are chants, prayers and offerings to gods/ancestors to whom these tattoos are dedicated. Blessings, and sometimes curses are invoked in bestowing these designs, as well as being marks of prestige, heritage, and history. Modern western tattooing is the result of taking indigenous practices and stripping them of their spiritual, and cultural qualities leaving only the 'art' upon the skin. The recipient is left to make their own meaning for the designs rather than receive sacred ritual marks that are recognized by generations upon generations of ancestors. Let us work to decolonize tattooing and restore its honor." -Lane Wilcken
- Philippine islands made up of 175 ethnolinguistic groups
- Terms for Tattooing
- Ilokano: batok, batek
- Cebuano: batuk, patik
- Pangasinanse, Benguet, Ilokano: burik
- Mindanao: pangateb sa gimokud
- Tagalog: tatak
- What is hand tapped tattooing?
- An ancestral and ritual practice of permanent body marking through the use of handmade implements that are made from natural materials such as animal bone and wood
- Examples of Hand Tapped Tattooing
- Philippines
- Kalinga
- Apo Whang-Od (https://www.instagram.com/apowhangod/)
- United States
- Manong Lane Wilcken (https://www.instagram.com/lanewilcken)
- Bukidnon
- Manoy Piper Abas (https://www.instagram.com/atawu_patik_tradition/)
- Kalinga
- Pacific
- Samoan
- Su’a Paul Suluape (https://www.instagram.com/paulsuluape/)
- Su'a Faamanatu Suluape (https://www.instagram.com/promise_suluape/)
- Su'a Suluape Peter (https://www.instagram.com/petersuluape/)
- Hawaiian
- Su’a Keone Nunes (https://www.instagram.com/suluape_keone/)
- Pā Uhi → “School of Tattoos”
- Kā Uhi Keoneʻulaokamakauhi Keliʻiokalani Mākua (https://www.instagram.com/kelii_makua/)
- Ka Pā ʻO Hūnōhūnōholani → “The School of
- Su’a Keone Nunes (https://www.instagram.com/suluape_keone/)
- Papua New Guinea
- Julia Mage’au Gray (https://www.instagram.com/melanesianmarks/ )
- Maori
- Te Rangitu Netana (https://www.instagram.com/terangitu/ )
- Samoan
- Philippines
- Intro to Culture Talk:
- Explain Weekly Culture Talks
- Instructor presents their Culture Talk
- Students break up into small groups and discuss their ethnic/cultural heritage
- Choose time capsule topics
- Research Time Capsule topic to present next meeting
- Read Filipino Tattoos: Ancient to Modern by Lane Wilcken
- Chapter 1: Early Accounts and Fragments of Philippine Tattoo Culture (pp. 14-19)
- Read Barangay: Sixteenth-Century Philippine Culture and Society by William Henry Scott
- Chapter 1: Physical Appearance (pp. 20-22)
- Read Little Manila is in the Heart by Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (pp. 151-154)
- Watch: Marks of Mana Documentary
- Students will submit 1-2 pages or 5-7 min video response to content assignment