Post #252234 by Tamapoutini on Sun, Sep 3, 2006 8:56 PM

Cheers Benz. Yeah I like my tools, but a bit like with cars & computers, I love driving but cant stand working on them when broken... Im happy to find any effective method, as long as it IS effective!

The fellas watching over me... A groovy group of Hawaiian, Raraotongan, Marquesian & E. Islanders... (*new 'y' regd piece sitting on top of the Marq bookends Paipo!! scarfing both sides!!) Apart from these I have a pretty good collection of plastic NZ tacky-tikis.

Just cant stay away. Thought Id add a few more previous works. Dont want to go too far back with my stone carving, It is a timeline that begins with some cringable work, haha

A wee fella that makes his home in a hollowed out pounamu-pebble... 2004

And without the 'nest'...

This was purchased as a 'capping' gift for a University graduate to be presented with a real feather cloak!! Lucky girl! 2004-5?

A red-headed 'flat-top' tiki. Made utilising that natural surface again... 2004-5?

And a couple I call 'Hei-tiki/Toki' (2004&5) as they are fused with the toki/adze form -that should appeal to you woodcarvers. The toki being the woodcarvers tool of choice at one time... There is a special relevance to my using this form; when the first European settlers/visitors started coming to Aotearoa they bought with them steel tools which made the stone toki obsolete... A 'tourist' trade also sprung up almost immediately & as a consequence of these two factors, many pounamu adzeheads were refashioned into hei-tiki. The commonly recognised NZ hei-tiki design was very much influenced/developed by this & you could almost say that it quite literally 'emerged' from the toki form...

Enjoy! Tama