{"id":295,"date":"2012-10-06T17:18:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T17:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2026-05-08T20:08:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:08:52","slug":"the-last-tattoo-artist-whang-od","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"The last tattoo artist &#8211; Whang-Od"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whang-od Oggay also known as Maria Oggay,<sup id=\"cite_ref-8\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> is a tattoo artist from the village of Buscalan within <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Tinglayan, Kalinga\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tinglayan,_Kalinga\">Tinglayan<\/a>, <a title=\"Kalinga (province)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kalinga_(province)\">Kalinga<\/a>, Philippines.<sup id=\"cite_ref-9\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-10\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> She is often described as the &#8220;last&#8221; and oldest <i><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Mambabatok\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mambabatok\">mambabatok<\/a><\/i> (traditional Kalinga tattooist)<sup id=\"cite_ref-inq_3-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> and is part of the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Butbut people\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Butbut_people\">Butbut people<\/a> of the larger <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Kalinga ethnic group\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kalinga_ethnic_group\">Kalinga ethnic group<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-:3_11-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-296\" src=\"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01044.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"926\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01044.jpg 926w, https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01044-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01044-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 926px) 100vw, 926px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-297\" src=\"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01051.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"926\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01051.jpg 926w, https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01051-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01051-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 926px) 100vw, 926px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-298\" src=\"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01087.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"926\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01087.jpg 926w, https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01087-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01087-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 926px) 100vw, 926px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299\" src=\"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"926\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01067.jpg 926w, https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01067-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01067-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 926px) 100vw, 926px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-300\" src=\"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC00984.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"926\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC00984.jpg 926w, https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC00984-300x201.jpg 300w, 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srcset=\"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC00992.jpg 926w, https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC00992-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC00992-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 926px) 100vw, 926px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-309\" src=\"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"926\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01013.jpg 926w, https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01013-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01013-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 926px) 100vw, 926px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-310\" src=\"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC01106.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"926\" 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She is often described as the &#8220;last&#8221; and oldest mambabatok (traditional Kalinga tattooist) and is part of the Butbut people of the larger Kalinga ethnic group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}