Post #275924 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Jan 1, 2007 3:53 PM

On 2006-12-31 08:50, Basement Kahuna wrote:
For what it's worth the feather face mug is patterned after a New Guinea yam harvest festival mask...Still not my favorite but from a legitamate Oceanic artifact.

Far closer to home than that, BK, it is clearly based on this Cook collected Hawaiian feather image (which I had posted on e-bay when selling this mug through KON-ID):

...which shows us that some pieces, though seemingly quite UN-Tiki, can actually be VERY Tiki