Tiki Finds - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, Jan 28, 2008 11:29 PM Yowzah! The muthah! That's even betta than a picture from an art book. I still think though that there is so much authentic style and purpose to the piece, there must be a native original somewhere. There must have been a golden age of tourist art in New Zealand, just like there was in other parts of Polynesia, where the more expensive items had some real quality to them, and did not look like nameless pieces of hacked wood. But then, these kind of pieces must have been of interest for the locals, too. I wonder if that lamp base was from the same manufacturer than the two lamp bases that I photographed at Oceanic Arts ages ago: They were too expensive for me then, and eventually they sold...I still mourn them. O.A. also had a complete chess set from the same manufacturer. They were made out some hard, heavy, solid resin.

Yowzah! The muthah! That's even betta than a picture from an art book. I still think though that there is so much authentic style and purpose to the piece, there must be a native original somewhere.

There must have been a golden age of tourist art in New Zealand, just like there was in other parts of Polynesia, where the more expensive items had some real quality to them, and did not look like nameless pieces of hacked wood. But then, these kind of pieces must have been of interest for the locals, too.

I wonder if that lamp base was from the same manufacturer than the two lamp bases that I photographed at Oceanic Arts ages ago:

They were too expensive for me then, and eventually they sold...I still mourn them. O.A. also had a complete chess set from the same manufacturer. They were made out some hard, heavy, solid resin.

Post #357789 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Jan 28, 2008 11:29 PM