Post #400949 by Bay Park Buzzy on Wed, Aug 13, 2008 2:08 AM

On 2008-08-05 18:56, seafoamer wrote:
I paid whatever the lady had it marked for & cruised home & showed my dad who proceeded to yell at me for buying a statue of the Buddha when I wasn't even a Buddhist.
Anyway, I've held onto it all these years and here it is:

Next time I go to Mexico I'll pick up the other 31 pieces and the board and you'll have the whole mesoamerican inspired onyx/marble chess set like this one:

On 2008-08-12 21:35, brokeassbuilder wrote:
i dont no for sure if the mask is maori or not any one see anything similar

I think I know:
It's a bad news Good news bad news good news find...
Bad news is it's definitely not Maori. Good news is it's orgins are kind of Pacific Ocean related . Bad news (for the tiki finder) is it's Pacific northwestcoast. Good news is it's kind of nautical..
It's most probably a carving of a whale form the northwest coast. The eyes and mouth are pretty much dead on for the typical whale motifs used by a few northwest coast cultures. The nose is real close too. It looks to be a more modern and stylized carving than a traditional one.

On 2008-08-10 20:02, Paipo wrote:
Nice Rei Miro Buzzy. Is it as big as the old ones (12-16 inches)?

Half that. It's about 7" by 4".

Buzzy Out!

[ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2008-08-13 02:15 ]