Tiki Finds - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Mar 15, 2005 11:44 AM On 2005-03-15 07:55, johntiki wrote: Tiki D - Matson was a cruise line that ran from the U.S. to the South Pacific throughout the early to mid-20th century. The Matson route can be appreciated on the map "Course of the Matson Liners in the South Pacific" on pages 30/31 in the BOT. The icons of Polynesia are strung on a pink flower Lei surrounding Matson's ports of call. The best known series of menus among Hawaiiana collectors were designed by artist Frank MacIntosh in the 30s, and Eugene Savage in the late 40s (the ships were put to war use until 1945). The imagery of these two artists has been used and copied so much that it has become a clichee twice, on shirts, plastic trays and murals. The above menus must have been in use throughout the 60s, the most desirable one (which is always missing nowadays) is the New Zealand one with the big Maori Tiki in the foreground.

On 2005-03-15 07:55, johntiki wrote:
Tiki D - Matson was a cruise line that ran from the U.S. to the South Pacific throughout the early to mid-20th century.

The Matson route can be appreciated on the map "Course of the Matson Liners in the South Pacific" on pages 30/31 in the BOT. The icons of Polynesia are strung on a pink flower Lei surrounding Matson's ports of call.

The best known series of menus among Hawaiiana collectors were designed by artist Frank MacIntosh in the 30s, and Eugene Savage in the late 40s (the ships were put to war use until 1945). The imagery of these two artists has been used and copied so much that it has become a clichee twice, on shirts, plastic trays and murals.

The above menus must have been in use throughout the 60s, the most desirable one (which is always missing nowadays) is the New Zealand one with the big Maori Tiki in the foreground.

Post #146985 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Mar 15, 2005 11:44 AM