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Post #372019 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Apr 6, 2008 3:14 PM

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On 2008-04-06 14:41, Koolau wrote:
Mahalo all - those eyes are the damnedest thing - they really look like sun glasses. Here I had always thought that Coco Joe's cool-ified a tiki by adding sunglasses, when in fact it was a faithful reproduction of the real thing.

Well, some New Age-inspired scholars have argued that the "goggles"-type eyes of some Marquesan Tikis are proof that the Polynesian Islands were settled by UFO pilots. Yeah sure, alien UFO navigators wore WWII pilot goggles!