| Filipino Tattoo |
Question:
I'm curious to know if they had any before. I just might want to
encorporate a Filipino one with my Polynesian one.
Anyone know of drawings that depicts tattoos of Filipinos prior to the
Europeans? In this particular page http://www.oz.net/~gat/ under
HISTORY there's a photo that has a native about to slaughter one of the
conquistador, but he as well as others in the photo have tattoos on
them.
Answer:
- There's one 17th-century drawing (from the Alzina manuscript) that was
in A.L. Kroeber, PEOPLES OF THE PHILIPPINES (NY, 1928), 179, and is
reproduced in Larkin,"Philippine History Reconsidered," AMERICAN
HISTORICAL REVIEW 87-3 (June 1982): 600. I'm sure I've seen others, but
I can't lay my hands on them at the moment.
- You can find that they are almost similar to each other,
the most popular nowadays is typical of
Southern Filipinos. More recents ones have prayers or
symbols of anting-antings. I don't know if the tatoos in the
painting in that URL is accurate.
There are so many variations of Filipino tatoos mainly because it is tribal symbols, amount of wealth,
children and honorific ones. It is personal.
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