Please Help Me Identify This Ceremonial Paddle - Collecting Tiki

S Sneakytiki Tiki Socialite Boise, Idaho Joined: Mar 31, 2003 Posts: 1795	S Sneakytiki Posted posted on Thu, Dec 15, 2005 2:49 AM The style is definitely Marquesan, as far as anything you find being "authentic", it depends on your definition. It likely was a piece carved for the tourist trade. If it was carved by a Marquesan using traditional motifs that is still very nice. Anything pre-contact (European) made without steel implements is worth an astonomical sum and not likely to be found thrifting or antiquing. Antiki-ing? To see similar carvings you might try google images for a picture of a Marquesan club or U'u. Curvilinear line breaks, presence of wide nose, C shaped outer digits on hand and goggle like eyes are typical traits of the Marquesan style of tiki. Sneaky tiki non-Western Art History nerd.

The style is definitely Marquesan, as far as anything you find being "authentic", it depends on your definition. It likely was a piece carved for the tourist trade. If it was carved by a Marquesan using traditional motifs that is still very nice. Anything pre-contact (European) made without steel implements is worth an astonomical sum and not likely to be found thrifting or antiquing. Antiki-ing? To see similar carvings you might try google images for a picture of a Marquesan club or U'u. Curvilinear line breaks, presence of wide nose, C shaped outer digits on hand and goggle like eyes are typical traits of the Marquesan style of tiki.

Sneaky tiki
non-Western Art History nerd.

Post #203200 by Sneakytiki on Thu, Dec 15, 2005 2:49 AM