The Igorot tattoo may also be called as whatok by the Butbuts, fatek by the Bontocs, bátak by the Kankanaeys, and bátek by the Ibaloys and the Sagadans. The Igorot people, specifically the Kalingas and the Ifugaos, called their tattoo as batok and their tattooist as mambabatok. The Ibanags of Cagayan Valley called their tattoo as appaku, which is derived from the word paku that means “fern” due to its fern-like tattoo motifs. The Bikolanos of Albay, Camarines, and Catanduanes were tattooed, and they also practiced head binding and observed the dental arts of teeth sharpening, staining, and gold pegging - which were similar to the customs of their Bisaya neighbors. As for the coastal Agtas or the Dumagats, they named their tattoo as cadlet. TATTOO PRACTITIONERS IN LUZONĪmong the tattoo practitioners of Luzon were the Agtas, and they called their tattoo as pika. However, despite the saturation of Bisaya tattoos in historical literature, the culture of the precolonial Philippine tattooing was not confined in the Visayan Archipelago - the peoples of Luzon and Mindanao had also practiced this ancient art. Hence, this resulted in the popularization of the precolonial Philippine tattoos in the Kabisayaan. The Spaniards were also the ones who christened the Visayan Archipelago - aptly, the Kabisayaan - as the Islas de los Pintados, which is now the modern-day Bohol, Cebu, Leyte, Masbate, Negros, Panay, and Samar islands. And it was the 16th-century Spaniards who named the Visayans - correctly, the Bisaya - as the Pintados, which means “the painted ones”. It is a Visayan term that means “to strike, mark, or print”. Patik is the most familiar preconquest Filipino word for “tattoo”.
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