Post #323346 by pappythesailor on Sun, Aug 5, 2007 9:15 AM

Here's Barney West hard at work. California did seem to have the market cornered on Tiki then as now. sigh

(from the News Tribune, Pierce, Fla., 17 February 1964)

MELANESIAN MARK -
Barney West, former merchant mariner, paints a reproduction
of Tiki, a Melaneisean God, carved out of redwood at his
Sausalito, Calif., home.