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High up in the Cordillera mountains in the Philippines, in the village of Buscalan,
菲律賓的科迪勒拉山脈的群山之巔的布斯卡蘭村
lives a woman who is the last of her kind.
生活著一位舉世無雙的女性。
Mambabatok is the name given to the traditional tattoo artist of the Kalinga ethnic group.
Mambabatok是卡林加部落傳統紋身藝術家的榮譽稱號。
The artists are masters of their thousand-year-old trade.
這些藝術家都是這項已有上千年歷史的職業里的行家里手。
Originally giving tattoos to warriors who won in battle.
最初，這種紋身是專給贏了戰斗的人紋的。
Every year thousands of tourists make the journey to see Whang-Od and get one of her famous tattoos.
每年，成千上萬的游客一路風塵來到這里，只為觀賞Whang-Od著名的紋身手藝，同時也給自己烙下一個。
Whang-Od is now the last mambabatok, but she's teaching her grand niece to carry on the family tradition.
如今，Whang-Od已經是世間最后一位mambabatok，但她已經在教她的孫侄女繼承這項家庭傳統了。
