Post #26270 by Tiki King on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 10:15 AM

I never sold this one, The one on my site (which is on my lounge door) is the one and only that I did of this one. As I said, by nature, all Tiki art is derivative. This is a "traditonal" design. It is in fact a stylized representation of lono. But I did it from my mind, rather than from a drawing or another carving. This copy is fairly identical to mine. Sure, if it looks like a Tiki, then its attributes had to come from somewhere, so no modern Tiki carving can truly be called "Original". Many of my carvings are inspired by others, but I strive not to directly duplicate another carvers work, be they modern or traditional. This carver seemed to pretty much just duplicate my carving.

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[ Edited by: Tiki King on 2003-03-12 10:16 ]