Only four and three years after Supertyphoon Yolanda and Typhoon Ruby (Hagupit) devastated it, Samar island has embarked on cultural regeneration to fire up its Waray heritage consciousness. It has staged “Layag Samar,” a festival aimed at reviving the Samarnon cultural identity rooted in what Jesuit priest Francisco Ignacio Alcina described as the los pintados or tattooed people in his 17th century account, “Historia de las islas e indios de Bisayas.”
Layag Samar fest revives ‘los pintados’–the Waray ‘body-tattooing’ tradition
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15 January 2018, Philippines
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