This 101-Year-Old Tattoo Artist Is the Last of Her Kind
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High up in the Cordillera Mountains in the Philippines,
in the village of Buscalan, lives a woman who is the last of her kind.
Mambabatang is the name given to the traditional tattoo artists of the Kalinga ethnic group.
The artists are masters of their thousand-year-old trade,
originally giving tattoos to warriors who won in battle.
Every year, thousands of tourists make the journey to see Wangan and get one of her famous tattoos.
Wangan is now the last Mambabatang,
but she's teaching her grandniece to carry on the family tradition.