Post #168204 by webwide on Sun, Jun 26, 2005 4:18 PM

Found a few interesting things today. First, we snagged those tikis at Dollar Tree, and a few other tropical items. Thrift stores were all closed so we hit a couple of antique malls:

4 LP's

• Hawaii Calls: Favorite Instrumentals
• Harry Owens - voice of the Tradewinds (beautiful wahine on cover)
• Alfred Apaka - Sing me a Song of the islands
• The Magic Islands - Alfred Newman - this one is my favorite so far, just for the cover art. Diamondhead on the front/back, and a full color booklet inside full of pictures, including a lovely wahine, and a glossary of tips on speaking hawaiian! As a bonus, when I pulled the LP out along came a 45 of Alfred Apaka doing Little Brown Gal and I'll Weave a Lei of Stars.

Found an unusual wooden mask that stands about 3 feet tall. Looks pacific, but not Tiki or moai. Black wood w/ slight green tint to carved portions.

The wife also found a New Zealand souvenir Tiki w/ mother of pearl inlay for eyes. From Aotearoa, made out of Kauri wood.

Glenn

[ Edited by: webwide on 2005-06-26 21:13 ]