{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "whang-od",
 "type": "person",
 "names": {
  "name": "Whang-od Oggay",
  "local": "Whang-od",
  "local_lang": "Butbut Kalinga",
  "said": "Mambabatok, Buscalan"
 },
 "region": [
  "island-southeast-asia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "role": "practitioner"
 },
 "when": {
  "from": 1917,
  "to": 2026,
  "circa": true,
  "label": "Tattooing since about fifteen"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The Kalinga *mambabatok* everyone has heard of, tapping in Buscalan since she was about fifteen.",
  "story": "She learned from her father, and that was already an exception: only men with tattooing ancestry were supposed to learn. Her own apprentices are women, which is a second exception, and her community accepted it.\n\nShe tattooed headhunters who had earned the marks. She never married and has no children, and under the inheritance rule that would end the line — which is why the apprentices matter and why she chose them the way she did.",
  "notes": "Buscalan now receives a stream of visitors who come to be tattooed by her. Whether that is a living tradition or a queue is argued about by people who live there, and this site does not adjudicate it."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "ช่างสักกาลิงกาที่ทุกคนรู้จัก ตอกลายอยู่ที่หมู่บ้านบุสกาลันตั้งแต่อายุราวสิบห้า"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "batok",
   "as": "The tradition.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "to": "buscalan",
   "as": "The village.",
   "rel": "place"
  }
 ],
 "links": [
  {
   "label": "Whang-od",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whang-od"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-whang-od",
  "s:wp-whang-od-academy"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-whang-od"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "women",
  "start-here"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "images": [
  {
   "file": "whang-od/whang-od-fang-od.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Fang-od.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Fang-od.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AFang-od.jpg",
   "license": "CC BY 2.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/",
   "author": "daryl duhay",
   "credit": "https://www.flickr.com/photos/dudsduhay/8596564261/",
   "alt": "the last baok (tattoo) artist of kalinga",
   "date": "2013-03-24 12:35:30",
   "primary": true,
   "sha256": "60889605a6e767a9ff3e4b4ba2f268996383db986bf4d14837b802c3116295d1"
  },
  {
   "file": "whang-od/whang-od-whang-od-tattooing.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Whang-od tattooing.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Whang-od_tattooing.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AWhang-od_tattooing.jpg",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
   "author": "Mawg64",
   "credit": "Own work",
   "alt": "Whang-od tattooing.",
   "date": "2016-07-28",
   "primary": false,
   "sha256": "dde3939dc10cfe1c4686181cc328460f3907c27a220ea750ca27f669ca1c8de2"
  }
 ],
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "batok",
   "type": "tradition",
   "name": "Batok",
   "as": "Who is still doing it."
  },
  {
   "from": "kalinga-cordillera",
   "type": "tradition",
   "name": "Cordilleran whatok",
   "as": "The practitioner everyone has heard of."
  },
  {
   "from": "buscalan",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "Buscalan",
   "as": "Who works there."
  },
  {
   "from": "whose-designs",
   "type": "issue",
   "name": "Whose designs",
   "as": "And where it was changed, from inside."
  }
 ]
}