bu-ma-fa'-tek

Updated: May 2, 2025

But Tukukan tattooed some of her women in May, 1903, and this in spite of the fact that no heads had recently been taken there. However, the regulations of one pueblo are not necessarily those of another. In every pueblo, there are one or more men, called "bu-ma-fa'-tek," who understand the art of tattooing.

Albert Ernest Jenks - The Bontoc Igorot