Post #251542 by Basement Kahuna on Tue, Aug 29, 2006 10:10 PM

Here are two recent pieces of mine...I've been very busy lately getting comissions, Hukilau-destined pieces, and residential installs finished, so not much time to post...The first is a Fijian club known as a Gu-Gu. The club is so named because it's shaped is patterned after the Gu-Gu fish, a sacred fish in Fiji. The stylized image of the fish as seen on the ricasso of the club is the common element on every example of this club. Many of these clubs were bound by elements of the spiritual or sacred. When a club was used in battle it became the new dwelling place of the mana of every warrior whose life it took. The second piece is a stylized Maori warrior in a war canoe...this piece was a commission concept for our own Traveling Jones here on TC! It has a fully carved prow just like it's 40-foot cousins. It is 3 1/2 inches long. Making that tiny abalone Patu fit was difficult!