This is my Jeepney ride, the “Tatak Ng Apat Na Alon Tribe”. A group of people who’s working on to revive the Filipino traditions in Tattoo.
The Tatak Ng Apat Na Alon Tribe has about 40 members (then, 100 members now in the present and that does not include all the candidates to join). Most have been tattooed in the modern way, with tattoo machines. Some have gotten traditional hand worked tattoos. The traditional tattooing method involves the tattooist smearingthe skin with a mixture of soot and sugarcane juice. If sugarcane juice isn’t available other substances such as lard or hen’s dung can be used. The skin is then rapidly poked with the tattooing instrument, which ranges from the pointed metal pieces used by the PINTADOS, to the pieces of sharpened wood used by the kankanay tribe from Central Benguet. The tribe’s conscious individual and group efforts to revive and experiment with indigenous tattooing traditions of the Philippines have resulted in the revitalization of these indelible traditions with new design concepts. Elle Festin (Tribe) states, “We want to revive traditional tattooing and make it a norm for the Filipino youth of today. Because without this knowledge, there will be no ‘true’ history of our people.
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yes they are seem to be doing very good but I cannot get my tattoo done without going to america & I live in australia so I was thinking maybe they would able to make a Brother tribe in australia??? please write back thanks
Hey Bro, try to go to their site and answer all their questionnaire and email it back to them, maybe they can give you the design and make an arrangement to them. You dont know man maybe they will allow you to start their tribe chapter and your the leader. They also have chapter in Hawaii its more closer to Australia.
http://www.apat-na-alon-tribe.com
goodluck bro.
just some info we do have a chapter in Australia, and we are planning a trip to Austalia in the future.
i was wondering do you have to be a full filipino to get those type of tattoos or what? because im half mexican and half filipino and want to keep the culture alive in my family, sadly me and my father are the only ones that are into the filipino culture.
do you know if there is a chapter in sacramento,california?
@Rob:
I think you don’t need to be full blooded Filipino to have this tattoo as long as you have a Filipino blood and proud of it they will let you inked with that. They have a lot of chapter in California, San Jose, San Diego, Berkely but I’m not too sure in Sacramento.
okay cool thanks bro. hey when they ask for a zodiac sign like earth, wind, fire and water. what would a scorpio be?
@Rob:
As far as I know everything is all depend to your personality, they will ask you a lot of thing about yourself and through that they will know what design they need to put in to your skin.
Btw thanks for stopping by, I hope you keep on checking my site and share your Tattoo here once your done.
hey thanks for the help! but yeah i will share with you guys my tattoo. i already have one filipino tattoo. so when everything is done i will share!. just hoping this fire season will die down so i will have time to get the tat
So many ideas are triggered by your post. Thanks for the info.
im filipino, and i’m glad that tatak is bringing up awareness of the culture through tattoo, and the importance of unity among filipinos. Yet, you’re club is exclusive to few filipinos. How does one join your club without being to “clique-ish”? I am still interested in joining this club.
dammn bro nice website, i wanna get inked in japan because im stationed here and its gonna be a while till i get stationed state side, have any ideas where i can get it here, ung mura aiiteeezzz…thanks a lot..