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Butbut Symbols that Whang-od use in tattooing.

BUSCALAN EXPERIENCE PROMO:

• Promo Period: October 17 - November 30, 2019
• For every purchase of Whang-od cap or apparell = 1 raffle entry.  For those who purchased online, the your online order form will serve as your entry. Only successfully delivered orders will be accepted as a valid entry.
• Raffle draw will be on December 9, 2019. Buscalan Trip will be on February 6-8, 2020.
• Three (3) winners will be chosen. Each winner gets to bring another person with them to join an all-expense paid trip to Buscalan Village, Tinglayan, Kalinga.

Whang-od is a Filipino tattoo artist from Buscalan, Tinglayan, Kalinga, Philippines. She is often described as the "last" and oldest mambabatok and is part of the Butbut people of the larger Kalinga ethnic group.

She has been tattooing headhunters and women of the indigenous people of Butbut in Buscalan, Kalinga, since she was 15 years old, but the Butbut warriors who used to earn tattoos through protecting villages or killing enemies no longer exist. Despite that, Whang-od continues to apply her traditional art form to tourists visiting Buscalan.

The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) conferred to Whang-od the prestigious Dangal ng Haraya Award at Tabuk, the capital of Whang-od's ethnic province of Kalinga, in 2018. She was nominated for the National Living Treasures Award (Gawad Manlilikha ng Bayan) in 2017. Her nomination is still being processed by the NCCA.