Post #309507 by Basement Kahuna on Mon, May 28, 2007 8:38 PM

On 2007-05-28 16:58, Byberry1 wrote:
I was wondering if anyone could identify this.

It was purchased about 4-5 years ago at a "Bizarre" store. It was a store pretty much with rare collectibles.

I was told some information about it when I bought it. All they said was that this wooden Tiki man was made by an actual tribe to ward off evil spirits. It is very brittle and the wood is cracking all over, it seems like it could break very easily.

You can't honestly be serious...Pier 1 and Cost Plus World Market are full of this junk. It was made in a factory "mass-carving shed" by an actual Lombok tribesman (maybe) who likely: lives in a cold-water flat in Bali, smokes Luckies and sings Karioke every night when he gets off work. It's about as tiki as government cheese, (not to say I'm certain there is some latent pundit around here who could abstract it six ways from sunday to make it so). The only reason for this carving is to ward off the evil spirit of being broke for a Bali factory carver. The reason for the cracking? They carve green, unseasoned wood because it is softer, cheaper to obtain, and they can spit more of these out in a day. As soon as it leaves the shipping container and hits the dry air of the U.S.-Presto Cracko! That's the non-honey-coated truth.