Post #126532 by tikijackalope on Fri, Nov 19, 2004 8:43 PM

bigbrotiki wrote:

Ouuch, the colors, the colors!

Yes, but one of those those things found it's bliss this past Halloween and helped introduce about 300 trick-or-treaters to Tiki:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=11628&forum=6
Yeah, a big ole' Witco mask would have been cool, but I'd have never shot oily steam through it.

But maybe they meant another Kahiki

Nope, he meant THE Kahiki, and I'll tell you why: your somewhat pervasive book. The manager had a copy of BoT and we'd looked at it together. A kind interpretation of his claim to Kahikiness is that some of the stuff really did come from somewhere in Ohio and his memory latched onto Kahiki as a name.

But I have never seen that framed triple Tiki on red velevet, they might have had that in some older Orchids catalogue, is there any maker ID on the back?

I don't have one of those things handy but I don't recall any markings other than maybe a Philippines stamp. The wood parts of the things are covered with years of something that I've assumed to be airborne kitchen grease or paint that never dried.

Bigbro, in your Witco research, have you found anything like the flat Witco-like masks I got? Here is my restoration attempt at one of them: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=10106&forum=7&vpost=104190
Keigs tells me they are not Witco so I assume they are from one its imitators (ex-employee?). One thing that struck me is the resemblance of one of the styles (like the one I stripped) to the Witco artwork on page 252 of BoT on the artist's conception of what appears to be the front desk of a hotel.