{"product_id":"jake-verzosa-the-last-tattooed-women-of-kalinga-by-natividad-sugguiyao-9783958293175","title":"Jake Verzosa: The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga\u003c\/em\u003e presents a series of portraits by Jake Verzosa, who both laments and celebrates a dying tradition of tattooing in villages throughout the Cordillera mountains in the northern Philippines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor nearly a thousand years, the Kalinga women have proudly worn these lace-like patterns, or batok, on their skin as symbols of beauty, wealth, stature, and fortitude. Applied as part of a painful ritual, the vivid tattoos—abstractions of motifs such as ferns, rice bundles, centipedes, and flowing rivers—reflect a rite of passage and a powerful bond with nature. Yet today, this intricate form of self-adornment has largely been abandoned due to changing aesthetic perceptions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 2009 and 2013, Verzosa travelled extensively to document the last generation of women with the batok. The resulting pictures reveal the artistic designs of the tattoos, as well as their symbolic functions as signs of social belonging and testimonies to personal struggle and triumph, in which the skin becomes a \"story.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAccompanying Verzosa's portraits is a detailed illustrated glossary of the tattoo types and their meanings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463353483500,"sku":"9783958293175","price":72.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958293175-jake-verzosa-the-last-tattooed-women-of-kalinga.jpg?v=1775031485","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/jake-verzosa-the-last-tattooed-women-of-kalinga-by-natividad-sugguiyao-9783958293175","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}