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Meet Whang Od Oggay: The Philippines' oldest tattoo artist. Surrounded by lush rice terraces and undulating landscape, the mountain village of Buscalan is home to just 200 or so households.
Vogue Philippines has revealed Apo Whang-Od as the cover star of its April issue, a move that makes the 106-year-old tattoo artist from the Philippines the oldest person ever to appear on the ...
At 106, Apo Whang-od is the oldest known person practicing batok, a traditional tattooing technique that dates back 1,000 years in the Philippines.
Filipinos from all over the archipelago, as well as foreign tourists, come to the mountain village of Buscalan so that this one woman can mark them with her traditional tattoo art. Believed to be ...
Meet Whang Od Oggay: The Philippines' oldest tattoo artist It rests in the Kalinga province of the Philippines and is about a 15-hour drive north of Manila. Posted 2017-08-06T23:38:12+00:00 ...