{"id":54028,"date":"2023-04-03T18:09:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T09:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/03\/indigenous-tattooist-apo-whang-od-vogue-oldest-cover-star-106-philippines"},"modified":"2023-04-03T18:09:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T09:09:27","slug":"indigenous-tattooist-becomes-vogues-oldest-ever-cover-star-at-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54028","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous tattooist becomes Vogue&#8217;s oldest ever cover star at 106"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apo Whang-Od appears on front of Philippine edition and is credited with keeping <em>batok <\/em>form of art alive <\/p>\n<p>An Indigenous tattooist in the Philippines credited with helping to keep alive a form of the art known as <em>batok<\/em> has become the oldest Vogue cover star after appearing in the Philippine edition of the magazine at the age of 106.<\/p>\n<p>Apo Whang-Od, who is from Buscalan, a remote, mountainous village in the Kalinga province of the northern Philippines, began tattooing at 16. Once described as the last remaining <em>mambabatok, <\/em>or traditional Kalinga tattooist, she has since inspired a new generation to learn batok, said Vogue. Batok involves tapping the tattoo into the skin by hand, using a thorn, which is dipped in soot and natural dye, and is attached to a bamboo stick.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/03\/indigenous-tattooist-apo-whang-od-vogue-oldest-cover-star-106-philippines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apo Whang-Od appears on front of Philippine edition and is credited with keeping batok form of art alive An Indigenous tattooist in the Philippines credited with helping to keep alive a form of the art known as batok has become the oldest Vogue cover s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,41,71,576,514,503,2080,55,225,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-fashion","category-heritage","category-indigenous-peoples","category-magazines","category-philippines","category-tattoos","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54029,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54028\/revisions\/54029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}