E.C. Bali Hai Restaurant Tikis? - Collecting Tiki

B Bahookahuna Member Eye of Erna-Erna Backyard Bali Hai, CA Joined: Apr 06, 2007 Posts: 35	B Bahookahuna Posted posted on Wed, Apr 11, 2007 4:28 PM Bosko and Sven (side note to the venerable Sven: I'm not worthy!!!), I share your visceral reactions to these tikis (if you will). But why is that? (< philosophical question alert) What would really be helpful/instructive (not to mention a lot of fun) -- probably to a broad TC audience -- would be a really incisive discussion about the categories of tiki. The topic might even be worth its own thread. From the highest altitude, I think I can identify three broad categories of tiki: traditional tiki and its replicas (historically correct Polynesian art), midcentury Polynesian pop and its replicas (Enchanted Tiki Room and Mai Kai "artifacts," eg), and modern hypercommercialized sacrilege (such as the tikis imaged on the last page). There may be another category or two that I'm not hip to, and there will be many subcategories. Ideas? Venerably, Bahookahuna

Bosko and Sven (side note to the venerable Sven: I'm not worthy!!!), I share your visceral reactions to these tikis (if you will). But why is that? (< philosophical question alert)

What would really be helpful/instructive (not to mention a lot of fun) -- probably to a broad TC audience -- would be a really incisive discussion about the categories of tiki. The topic might even be worth its own thread. From the highest altitude, I think I can identify three broad categories of tiki: traditional tiki and its replicas (historically correct Polynesian art), midcentury Polynesian pop and its replicas (Enchanted Tiki Room and Mai Kai "artifacts," eg), and modern hypercommercialized sacrilege (such as the tikis imaged on the last page). There may be another category or two that I'm not hip to, and there will be many subcategories.

Ideas?

Venerably,
Bahookahuna

Post #298453 by Bahookahuna on Wed, Apr 11, 2007 4:28 PM