Tama - NZ Pounamu/greenstone - Last post for '08! - pg99 - Tiki Carving

T Tamapoutini Member Aotearoa (New Zealand) Joined: Aug 30, 2006 Posts: 1530	T Tamapoutini Posted posted on Sun, Apr 8, 2007 3:10 PM Where do you find these comparisons?? -Actually I do know of this piece & agree there is strong similarity. I am reading a Time/life publication at the moment where one of the authors has studied bark-cloth (tapa) & paper-making tools/technique and has found amazing similarities between the Meso-American & Sth East Asian methods. He argues that the knowledge came from Sth East Asia, via Polynesia, to the Americas... Perhaps an E.Islander took a holiday to Meso-America and came home with holiday snaps of the locals working on large stone structures too..? Back later with a newly finished piece hopefully, but for now it's over to the Swap-thread to make or break Flynnys heart... :lol: Tama :)

Where do you find these comparisons?? -Actually I do know of this piece & agree there is strong similarity.
I am reading a Time/life publication at the moment where one of the authors has studied bark-cloth (tapa) & paper-making tools/technique and has found amazing similarities between the Meso-American & Sth East Asian methods. He argues that the knowledge came from Sth East Asia, via Polynesia, to the Americas... Perhaps an E.Islander took a holiday to Meso-America and came home with holiday snaps of the locals working on large stone structures too..?

Back later with a newly finished piece hopefully, but for now it's over to the Swap-thread to make or break Flynnys heart... :lol:

Tama :)

Post #297692 by Tamapoutini on Sun, Apr 8, 2007 3:10 PM