Post #104267 by Aaron's Akua on Mon, Jul 26, 2004 2:12 PM

I am looking for a good source of illustrations, etc. of the "real deal" - original Tikis created by Oceanic Natives. I picked up a dogeared copy of "Arts of the South Seas" (The book mentioned in Sven's Book of Tiki). I has some great stuff, but I'm eager to find more.

The best thing would be some actual line art - black & white illustrations, or even something like a Hawaiian coloring book (if one exists) with original native tiki designs and maybe a description of the tiki god's name and legend or story.

Another thought is to get ahold of some Captain Cook type engravings or illustrations that were made before all of the tikis were destroyed by missionaries or rotted away.

I've looked all over the internet for something like this, but haven't had any luck so far.

You know how things begin to blur when you make a copy of a copy of a copy? I'd like to start with the "basics" and design around it for my next set of tikis.

Any ideas out there?

Mahalo,

Aaron

"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness"

-Pablo Picasso

[ Edited by: Aaron on 2004-07-26 14:16 ]

[ Edited by: Aaron on 2004-07-26 14:17 ]