Rattiki pendants with beads and boars teeth - Tiki Carving

R Rattiki Member Key West, FL Joined: May 03, 2003 Posts: 422	R Rattiki Posted posted on Tue, Aug 22, 2006 8:14 AM On 2006-08-21 15:53, finkdaddy wrote: Very nice work! I wish my wahine would wear something like this. I would love to see her in one of those and a low-cut dress... :wink: Where does one go to buy bores teeth? Ya know that is a good idea, I'll see what my Misses looks like in one of these in one of her animal print dresses. In response to your question about the teeth..... I guess I should explain since I have been out of circulation here for awhile. These pieces were made for me in the highlands of Luzon, Philippines. Banue, Ifugao is where the famous rice terraces are and the people there were once head hunters (which in modern times they only practiced on the Japanese in WWII) :wink:. They also have a stone age tradition of making wood carvings of their pagan gods similar to the South Pacific which of course is just adjacent to them (though metallurgy was introduced about 700 years ago from China). Most of their traditional work is very basic looking and somewhat similar to Papua at times. Back in 2003 I went up there taking a copy of Sven's BOT with me to see how good they would be at replicating works of Tiki and we came up with some pretty nice stuff. In 2004 I brought back a boatload of masks I had pre-ordered from the members here (I bank rolled it and they paid me when I returned with the stuff) which worked out quite well. This last time though (2005) I decide to try smaller, easier to transport, jewelery pieces. Also we had a change of plans midway in our trip through Indochina and ended up spending several months in Vietnam where I taught English and just soaked up life and culture in Saigon (HCMC). So these got put on the back burner until I could get it finished. Anyway, to make a short story long, you buy bores teeth in the Philippines :wink:

On 2006-08-21 15:53, finkdaddy wrote:
Very nice work! I wish my wahine would wear something like this. I would love to see her in one of those and a low-cut dress... :wink:

Where does one go to buy bores teeth?

Ya know that is a good idea, I'll see what my Misses looks like in one of these in one of her animal print dresses.

In response to your question about the teeth.....

I guess I should explain since I have been out of circulation here for awhile. These pieces were made for me in the highlands of Luzon, Philippines. Banue, Ifugao is where the famous rice terraces are and the people there were once head hunters (which in modern times they only practiced on the Japanese in WWII) :wink:. They also have a stone age tradition of making wood carvings of their pagan gods similar to the South Pacific which of course is just adjacent to them (though metallurgy was introduced about 700 years ago from China). Most of their traditional work is very basic looking and somewhat similar to Papua at times. Back in 2003 I went up there taking a copy of Sven's BOT with me to see how good they would be at replicating works of Tiki and we came up with some pretty nice stuff. In 2004 I brought back a boatload of masks I had pre-ordered from the members here (I bank rolled it and they paid me when I returned with the stuff) which worked out quite well. This last time though (2005) I decide to try smaller, easier to transport, jewelery pieces. Also we had a change of plans midway in our trip through Indochina and ended up spending several months in Vietnam where I taught English and just soaked up life and culture in Saigon (HCMC). So these got put on the back burner until I could get it finished.
Anyway, to make a short story long, you buy bores teeth in the Philippines :wink:

Post #250179 by Rattiki on Tue, Aug 22, 2006 8:14 AM