Post #122390 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Oct 28, 2004 10:29 PM

On 2004-10-28 19:37, Tiki Royale wrote:

My take is that "Tiki Mug" has become a brand of sorts. Any ceramic vessel used for holding a tropical beverage...
It's just an evolution of the language...

To me, it is a DE-volution, dangerously smelling like a watering down of the style. Tiki= Tropical. As long as my motto "If it says Tiki on it, it should have Tiki in it (or on it)" is not met, we are in e-bay seller "Tiki/Eames/retro" terminology land.

Tiki style as defined by me always has the iconographic figurehead of the Tiki in the foreground. Otherwise it is nautical, or trader, or beachcomber, or Hawaiiana style.

The above item is a mermaid mug, or would you call the new Tommy Bahama Hawaiiana pottery "Tiki" mugs? They are Hula Girl mugs. And the good ole' rum barrels?

....but then again is it proper to refer to some of the modern, highly stylized creations by Munktiki and Bosko as "tikis"...?

Absolutely, if they bear any trace of being inspired by primitive effigies from any of the Oceanic culture groups. That's to me as far as the name mingling goes:
In Polynesian Pop, all idols from all Oceanic islands can be called Tikis. But if mugs depict monkeys, they are monkey mugs, if they are skulls, skull mugs, and so on....