Post #169343 by The Velvet Tiki on Sat, Jul 2, 2005 10:01 AM

Yes,I meant tikis carved by polynesians in times of yor?On far away islands which time forgot.Although the native Polynesians who carve tikis now must be creating the real thing(meaning made by Polynesians).Except Tikis were originally religious objects,and if somone makes one to sell as decoration,or a souvenir it kind of makes it somthing else.Of course we would have to be an ancient polynesian to trully understand what a tiki is.Anyway I plan on carving some out of cedar logs from trees felled by Hurricane Ivan(there are a lot still around)and I don't plan on worshiping them,even though we tend to collect our tikis religiously.the great Pacific explorer William Nordhoff,whom I was name after

[ Edited by: The Velvet Tiki on 2005-07-02 10:29 ]