Aloha, Springfield, MO (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

R Rattiki Member Key West, FL Joined: May 03, 2003 Posts: 422	R Rattiki Posted posted on Sat, Nov 20, 2004 1:59 AM Quote: `There was one scary looking mask on one of the walls.` Omni Hut has one of the same ones. They always look to me like an acid-freak's vision of a demonic triceratops...more Thai than Polynesian. What do our experts think? I know it is a version of a 'dragon mask' that is made in Banaue, Ifugao, The Philippines. They are very, very common there and quite cheap as they are almost mass produced soley for commercial sales. It looks like a 20"-24", so that one would have cost around 400 Pisos or about $3.50 if you bought it in Banaue. It would have been painted afterwards somewhere else, as painting wood carvings there is all but unheard of. [ Edited by: Rattiki on 2004-11-20 02:00 ]

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There was one scary looking mask on one of the walls.  
Omni Hut has one of the same ones. They always look to me like an acid-freak's vision of a demonic triceratops...more Thai than Polynesian. What do our experts think?

I know it is a version of a 'dragon mask' that is made in Banaue, Ifugao, The Philippines. They are very, very common there and quite cheap as they are almost mass produced soley for commercial sales. It looks like a 20"-24", so that one would have cost around 400 Pisos or about $3.50 if you bought it in Banaue. It would have been painted afterwards somewhere else, as painting wood carvings there is all but unheard of.

[ Edited by: Rattiki on 2004-11-20 02:00 ]

Post #126549 by Rattiki on Sat, Nov 20, 2004 1:59 AM