Post #395052 by Tiki Shark Art on Fri, Jul 18, 2008 11:58 PM

On 2008-07-17 16:04, msteeln wrote:
No photos to go along with my seperate 'who did them' question, and the tikis in question are now long gone to somewhere, but in Kahaluu, on Oahu, there used to be 4 great 20'+ male tikis outside of a tourist stop called Coconut Corner, which garnered stares not for just their overall sizes but because each were anotomically 'correct', or incorrect, depending on your perspective of decency and tiki purity, as I've never seen other tikis with... well... shlongs down to there. I was always curious who did the carvings.
Anybody remember these, and/or know where they went? Hard to hide!

I don't know about the four big tikis on Oahu. But, there is this tiki at Pu'uhonua o Honaunan (the Place of Refuge) in the Kona district on the Big Island. He seems to have a big...er...personality.

I asked a tour guide who carved the tikis for the park. Strangely, he told me they were carved in Tahiti, by a native artist there. A bit distressing thinking there are no local Hawaiian carvers for this job. Not sure if this tour guide was giving me the truth or not.