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