1. Serrano, Lhean Angelique P.
4IND1
ARTHIST

3. Over 5,000 years ago
The history of traditional tattooing began
and diverse as the people who wear them.
Philippine Tattoo Culture

4. March 17, 1521
Ferdinand Magellan
When Ferdinand Magellan and his men landed on the shores of Homonhon
Island,
“pintados”Natives were called “pintados”,
meaning “painted people”.
The first natives wore tattoos and Magellan mistakenly
thought the designs were painted on.

5. Originated from the polynesian term
(tah-tah-oo or tah-taw)
“ to mark or strike”,
“doing what is right or correct”
The interpretations of the sound of the tapping of the
tattooing tools as the ink is pushed into the skin.
And made its way into the European languages as the word

6. Extension of a
man’s loincloth or a
woman’s skirt.
“ nobility
and
bravery ”
“ Manfatek ”
“ Manbatek ”
“ Mambabatok ”
“ Bumafatek ”
“ Manfattong ”
tribal
form of
rankaccomplishments
magical
qualities

7. Tattoo : Artists
would be paid in advance with livestock, heirloom beads
or coined silver, etc
a comb of needles set at a right angle to the length of
an L-shaped stick.
Tattoo : Equipments
An Adze-like tool was made of wood or
carabao horn ( Philippine water buffalo)
with needles made of iron, steel, brass,
bamboo or thorns of the orange tree
lashed to the tool.
Tattooing needles of the Pacific
Islands were usually made from the
bones of fishes, birds and small
animals.
The needles were razor
sharp and capable of
executing very precise
lines and designs.

9. They are the people who live in the mountainous areas of Benguet,
Ifugao, Mounatin Province and Kalinga-Apayao.
"Chaklag"
“Pongo”
“Fatek”
Tattooed chest of the
headhunter / headtaker
The tattooed arms
of men and women
Tattooed on the Hands of an
old women

10. “ Chaklag "

11. “Pongo”

12. “Fatek”

13. FATEK is the word used to call the tattoo on the hands of the old women in Bontoc.
It beautifies the body.
Hand tattooing is a distinct
Bontoc ‘body’ art. The practice
has ended but the remnants of
this art is still seen in the hands of
an old women of Bontoc.

14. CENTIPEDE

15. It symbolized
the movement
of a young
warrior to a
higher level.

16. The modern “tribal” tattoo now has come full of circle and is worn by
the descendants of the very people who originally inspired the
modern art. Due to its popularity, others have sought to emulate the
trend by creating “tattoo flash” of these sacred designs. Tattoo flash
is a drawn or printed copy of a tattoo design on paper, made stirctly
to be sold. Often new tribal tattoos are stylized versions or copies of
tattoos used by indigenous people.