Post #14911 by GECKO on Tue, Nov 26, 2002 8:22 PM

here are a few flavors of the pacific.

This is a personal creation. a coconut wood carved mask.

this is a yipwan I made a while back. From the Sepik New Guinea area.

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This is a traditional tiki carved in Marqueas as well as Tahiti. When I make tikis i use a variety of finishes. some burned, varnished, painted and stained. I call this finish my "TV" Trader Vic color because he used those dark finished tikis a lot in his restaurants.
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here we have a mixture of South Sea Arts. I combined a New Guinea mask on a tapa(bark cloth) shield from Samoa or the Fiji islands which is another big supplier of the beautiful art of Tapa.

In this picture as you see, I too like playing with bamboo! a frame for a album cover.

finally, I know it's not a tiki but I love to make things for tiki bars and what would a bar be without polynesian bathroom signs. I hate going into a bar and seeing those ugly blue plastic men/women tabs on the door! This makes the atmosphere more authentic.

ke brahddas an sistas, i get hungry so i gon grind already!

Shootz!