Post #140175 by christiki295 on Tue, Feb 8, 2005 6:43 PM

On 2005-02-05 13:25, Johnny Dollar wrote:
i figured that when i start to build my bar, the self-imposed rule would be that if it could float to the pacific islands and make it as flotsam/jetsam, it could be hung up in the bar :) as far as parrots go, one almost made it from peru to raroia on the kon-tiki. i think there was a fake parrot in the honolulu, so i would feel comfortable putting one in my bar.

Good rule.

However, there are similarities in places other than the South Pacific which have tiki characteristics.

If tiki is based on a Hawaiian model, the Carribean also conjures up the tantalizing visons of coconut trees, beautiful islands in exotic locales and potent, rum-based drinks.

On the African continent, in the sub-Saharan areas, the distinction also begins to blur because there are wooden representations of gods, there is dancing to drums and the wooden gods do bear a striking resemblence to tiki.

I think tiki needs to spread out and start co-opting these other places. I say begin in South Florida, on the Mai Kai model, and then begin spreading the tiki love into the Carribean.

There appears to be more than enough similarity in the indegenous culture and sun-seeking tourists that there should not be any reistance.