Post #4091 by Tiki-bot on Mon, Jul 22, 2002 3:34 PM

atomictonytiki wrote:

..if tiki is the popular culture taking the designs of the pacific and adapting it for a western culture then isn't all black tribal tattoos tiki?

In this case, what I meant by "tiki" was actual tiki statue-type images. I don't really count the ubiquitous tribal designs that are such a fad these days as "tiki" (in the poly-pop, kitch-culture sense of the word).

Tiki-bot