Can you identify this Tahitian tiki for me? - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Wed, Dec 8, 2004 3:41 PM Yeah, his name is Sean. ....no, seriously: Hopefully this will not be too much of a dissillusionment, but this Tiki can undoubtedly be identified as a TOURIST Tiki, probably massproduced in the Phillipines. Name and purpose arbitrary, depending on what the label or the vendor says. The style is Marquesan, because the ancient Tahitian god figures were not figurative, but sennit bundles (only lil household voodod worship dolls survived in carved form). Because of the lack of their own Tiki style, and also because of talented carvers migrating from the Marquesas to Tahiti, the Marquesan style became the Tiki style of choice for the Tahitian tourist trade. But just as Pablo Picasso said:“You don’t need the masterpiece to get the idea. The concept or component of a style is entirely accessible in second-rate examples and even fakes” This Tiki is full of YOUR mana of that special time, so it would be a Honeymoon Tiki, protecting you from anything that might mess with the eternal honeymoon you are on.

Yeah, his name is Sean.

....no, seriously: Hopefully this will not be too much of a dissillusionment, but this Tiki can undoubtedly be identified as a TOURIST Tiki, probably massproduced in the Phillipines.

Name and purpose arbitrary, depending on what the label or the vendor says. The style is Marquesan, because the ancient Tahitian god figures were not figurative, but sennit bundles (only lil household voodod worship dolls survived in carved form).
Because of the lack of their own Tiki style, and also because of talented carvers migrating from the Marquesas to Tahiti, the Marquesan style became the Tiki style of choice for the Tahitian tourist trade.

But just as Pablo Picasso said:“You don’t need the masterpiece to get the idea. The concept or component of a style is entirely accessible in second-rate examples and even fakes”

This Tiki is full of YOUR mana of that special time, so it would be a Honeymoon Tiki, protecting you from anything that might mess with the eternal honeymoon you are on.

Post #129819 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Dec 8, 2004 3:41 PM