HAND TAPPED TATTOOS FROM THE PHILIPPINES
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WEEK 6:
​PROCESS AND TOOLS

Week 6: Process and Tools 
Check-In
  • Summarize readings with pairs
  • Discuss reflections
Culture Talk
Mini-Lecture 
  • Tattooing tools are handmade implements that are made from natural materials such as animal bone and wood 
  • Names for tools 
    • Kalinga and Kankana-ey = Kisi, Gisi 
    • Isneg = Igihisi 
  • Detailed processes on making tools and ink is proprietary knowledge that is sacred and reserved explicitly for cultural practitioners 
Activity
  • Make a bao (coconut shell) for ink
    • Break open coconut 
    • Dry coconut 
    • Scrape meat out of shell 
    • Sand coconut to desired smoothness 
Content Assignment
  • Read Forgotten Children of Maui by Lane Wilcken (pp. 
  • Read “Pre-Colonial Times” by Robert C. Kiste 
  • Savage Symbols
  • Signature of the Soul 
  • Into Antiquity: A Memory of the Maori Moko 
Reflection Response
  • Students will submit 1-2 pages or 5-7 min video response to content assignment
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