page_title: Pintados
section_title: Pintado native clothing
hierarchical_section_title: Pintados / Pintado native clothing
caption_attribution_description: English: A Visayan Freemen couple
context_page_description: Pintados, from the Spanish word Pintado meaning painted. The term used by Spanish colonists to describe the tattooed indigenous Sebwano people and Waray people. They were found on the islands of Cebu, Bohol, eastern part of Negros, Leyte, and Samar in the Biçayas region of the Philippines. The word itself means "painted," and was first used during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. The Boxer Codex shows both men and women were tattooed. They apply the tattoos by pricking the skin with sharp pieces of iron and then applying black powder to the open wounds which is absorbed into the skin permanently.
  The inhabitants of the provinces of Camarines, located at the eastern end of the islands, and Marinduque resemble the Pintados. During 16th century, "Visayan" would only refer to the people in modern-day Western Visayas, in contrast to the "Pintados" of Central Visayas and Eastern Visayas. Today, the term "Visayan" connotes all ethnic groups of all Visayas regions, while the term "Bisaya", connotes the ethnic Sebwano people, whose ancestral land is in Central Visayas. The main ethnic group in Eastern Visayas is the Waray people.
context_section_description: Pintado natives wear their hair long, fastened in a knot on the crown of their head. Women often wear large earrings made of gold and ivory, and decorative scarves around their heads. The women also wear skirts that reach halfway down their leg with a loose, collarless jacket with tight sleeves. Fastened in front, these garments are made of medriñaque and colored silks, wearing bahaques (breech-clouts). Tumao wore the barong mahaba.
caption: A Pintados couple of the timawa or tumao martial-feudal class (1590's); later demoted to freedman status.
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