Batok is a general term for indigenous tattoos of the Philippines, meaning "to hit" or "to tap", and master tattoo artists and cultural practitioners of the art are known as "mambabatok".

anthropologist Lars Krutak filmed Whang-Od for his Discovery Channel series “Tattoo Hunter.” In 2018, she won a prize from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and the Philippine ...

The Philippines has thousands of islands and many ethnolinguistic groups with their own traditions and marking. Every marking and tattoo placement is meant to be a visual language. Batok gained ...

The preservation of culture exists in many ways. Baybayin is the written language of the Philippines ... under the needle and received meaningful tattoos in the written language.