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2011.43.1

White cotton T-shirt with print of a black and white line drawing of a tattooed woman with beads and with wrap around skirt (Kain). [FC 24/08/2011]

2011.43.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
White cotton T-shirt with print of a black and white line drawing of a tattooed woman with beads and with wrap around skirt (Kain). [FC 24/08/2011]
Long description
White cotton T-shirt with print of a black and white line drawing of a tattooed woman with beads and with wrap around skirt (Kain). The word Kalinga has been printed above the print of the woman in black lettering. The woman is wearing beads around her head and earrings, several strands of beads around her neck and across her chest and has both arms tattooed with traditional geometric shapes. [FC 24/08/2011]
Geographical reference
Philippines
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Philippines
North Luzon Kalinga Lubuagan Tabuk
Person
Maker Rudy Ngao-at
Field collector Analyn Salvador-Amores
PRM source Analyn Salvador-Amores
Date / Period
Date made: Before 2009
Date collected
2010
Acquisition information
Donated: 24/06/2011
Materials and processes
Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Material Pigment, Process Printed, Process Stitched
Dimensions
Width: max 745 mm, Length: max 640 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 2011.43.1
Research and responses

The donor of the T-shirt features on the Pitt Rivers Museum's Body Arts web pages. In her documentary Kakau and Batok Talk: Tattoos from Hawaii and the Philippines at the conclusion of her fieldwork in the mountains of northern Luzon in the Philippines, anthropologist Analyn Salvador-Amore filmed an encounter with Hawaiian tattoo practitioner Keone Nunes and a Butbut tattoo practitioner Whang-ud. The conversations reveal a deep connection with traditional tattooing practices from Polynesia to the Philippines.

See: http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/bodyarts/index.php/multimedia/video/137-kakau-and-batok-talk-tattoos-from-hawaii-and-the-philippines.html to view the documentary. [FC 24/08/2011]

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