Post #250823 by Paipo on Sat, Aug 26, 2006 4:49 AM

I just got back from a trip 100km up the coast, where this morning we went garage saling and checked a couple of second-hand places. I never expect to find the type of tiki stuff most people here collect, but Maori themed "kiwiana" and Pacific Islands stuff is reasonably plentiful. Before we went out I was thinking how cool it would be to find a mug, as they're almost non-existent in NZ.
Well, the first stop of the day yielded these:

Thanks to an old thread I found here a week or two back, I know a bit about these and how ubiquitous they are. In fact, another shop in my town here has the exact same two sets in the different sizes. I've held off buying them because the carving is so dodgy, but when I saw these ones this morning, I realised it was my destiny to own two pairs of oversized novelty utensils and handed over my 7 bucks. My wife was horrified.
Anyway, a couple of houses later I spied this on the floor:

Hardly a relic from a long-lost urban oasis, but in a mug starved country like
NZ it's manna from heaven. I've been given a couple of these boxed sets already, one of which had a different mug style. At least they're cheap enough that they're not too precious to use!

Edited to add: Stiki Tiki, I've seen some similar rongorongo boards, which were tourist pieces (from Rapanui) from 20 or 30 years back.

[ Edited by: Paipo 2006-08-26 04:59 ]

[ Edited by: Paipo 2006-08-26 05:04 ]