Post #141729 by cheekytiki on Thu, Feb 17, 2005 3:01 AM

These are wonderful, but(and I hate to be a wet blanket)there is also aproblem in that there are none of these old pieces left in the countries they originate from, which I find a shame.
I found this out whilst I was in Oz and got talking to a tiki collector who had spent time with his Oceanic neighbours. He said though it was fairly easy to come by the contempory/tourist art, the country (PNG) had been pillaged of everything else, and apparently the natives aren't too happy about it.