ContemporaryHeritage · Filipino · DiasporaRegion · United States
Elle Festin
Co-founder, Mark of the Four Waves Tribe · Los Angeles, California
- Style
- Batok / Polynesian-adjacent revival
- Regions served
- United States
- Tradition
- Filipino · Diaspora
About Festin’s work
Co-founder of the Mark of the Four Waves Tribe, a Filipino-American collective that has strongly shaped the West Coast Pacific tattoo revival. Featured in Smithsonian and academic writing on Pacific tattoo diaspora.
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Sources & citations
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- Smithsonian Folklife — Batok revival ↗folklife.si.edu
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