Post #269621 by pappythesailor on Thu, Nov 30, 2006 2:26 PM

I only know what I read but in Aku Aku, Thor mentions over and over again how the Easter Island natives carve these things wholesale AND how they tried to pass off newly-carved kava-kavas and stuff to him on several occasions--and they LIKED him. To say it was a cottage industry doesn't start to cover it--I mean half the book was about Thor trying not to get rooked. If somebody carved it in 1950, it's going to look pretty antiqued now. I bet there aren't ten people in the world who could tell you if this thing is old or just carved for the tourists.