Post #405421 by Toataiaha on Mon, Sep 1, 2008 10:38 PM

On 2008-09-01 21:48, Tipua wrote:

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.

That is because 'tiki' is not a part of Samoan culture , neither small ones suspended around the neck 'hei' , or large free standing ones .

Despite the fantasies of some , TIKI are not world wide , Pacific wide , or Polynesia wide .

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This article is about the large Polynesian carvings in humanoid form. For other uses, see Tiki (disambiguation).

In Central Eastern Polynesian cultures of the Pacific Ocean, tiki is a name given to large carvings of humanoid form. These carvings often serve to mark the boundaries of sacred or significant sites. The word appears as tiki in New Zealand Mâori, Cook Islands Mâori, Tuamotuan, and Marquesan; as ti'i in Tahitian, and as ki'i in Hawaiian. The word has not been recorded from the languages of Western Polynesia or of Rapanui (Easter Island). ""

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