Post #405415 by Tipua on Mon, Sep 1, 2008 9:48 PM

On 2008-09-01 21:33, Toataiaha wrote:

On 2008-09-01 21:09, Tipua wrote:
Certainly no hei-tiki ( in Samoa). Probably all eradicated by the missionaries before tourism I'd assume.

Tipua ,
how could the missionaries eradicate something that did not exist ?

Hei-Tiki are a product of this Island , and it's satellite , Aotearoa .

Yeah you're right. I stand corrected.

I still found no indigenous Samoan tiki (the large wooden or stone types) though.