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TC Tiki Chris Member London Joined: Mar 24, 2002 Posts: 1542	TC Tiki Chris Posted posted on Mon, Jan 31, 2005 8:33 PM bigbrotiki: unless there's some maori in your gene pool, you're out of luck. benzart: yeah, my head almost exploded the first few days we were down there. keep a lookout b/c i plan to post more pics this week. teakey: i didn't purchase any carvings. they were simply too expensive (the good stuff was reasonably priced, but you pay for quality. the touristy stuff was just overpriced & not worth it). i got some great shirts as well as a nice jade hei tiki. my wife got a bone manaia necklace. we got some other cool stuff (books, cds, etc) & a lot of non-maori kiwi stuff. however, we're strongly considering commissioning Eruera Ropiha to do a carving for us, if & when we get some home improvement stuff out of the way. See examples of Eruera's work here: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=13002&forum=7&2

bigbrotiki: unless there's some maori in your gene pool, you're out of luck.

benzart: yeah, my head almost exploded the first few days we were down there. keep a lookout b/c i plan to post more pics this week.

teakey: i didn't purchase any carvings. they were simply too expensive (the good stuff was reasonably priced, but you pay for quality. the touristy stuff was just overpriced & not worth it). i got some great shirts as well as a nice jade hei tiki. my wife got a bone manaia necklace. we got some other cool stuff (books, cds, etc) & a lot of non-maori kiwi stuff.

however, we're strongly considering commissioning Eruera Ropiha to do a carving for us, if & when we get some home improvement stuff out of the way. See examples of Eruera's work here:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=13002&forum=7&2

Post #138620 by Tiki Chris on Mon, Jan 31, 2005 8:33 PM