
The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga - Steidl Book Award Asia
- Publisher
- Steidl
- Year
- 2017
- ISBN
- 978-3-95829-317-5
- Specifications
- Clothbound hardcover
26.8 x 33 cm
96 pages
66 images
English
Tritone
The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga presents a series of portraits by Jake Verzosa who laments and celebrates a dying tradition of tattooing in villages throughout the Cordillera mountains in the northern Philippines. For 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.