Post #429670 by RitzTiki on Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04 AM

Here's an opportunity to capture a roamin' tiki god: http://denver.craigslist.org/for/999977705.html

Huge Easter Island Tiki Statue-- super cool! - $675 (Denver, downtown)

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Date: 2009-01-20, 12:17AM MST

This is a groovy mod vintage relic! Giant tiki head, known as a moai, is impressive at about 4' x 8' x 2' and looks like it came from ancient Easter Island but actually escaped from the demise of Denver's famous Rock Island Danceclub in LoDo. This durable and regal dude presided over some serious partying in the last couple decades and is ready to go back to work in your bar, restaurant, wreckroom, tiki party, etc. It is big but fairly light as it was handcarved from styrofoam covered with fibermesh and sealant and finished authentically to look like South Pacific stone. I'll miss it but must sell, $675. Buy it now before the Denver Mid-Century Modernism Show. Delivery available. Scott 303-641-0466 [email protected]

In case anyone wants a little tiki lesson...
One of the world's most famous yet least visited archaeological sites, Easter Island is a small, hilly, now treeless island of volcanic origin. Located in the Pacific Ocean 2200 miles off the coast of Chile, it is considered to be the world’s most remote inhabited island. The oldest known traditional name of the island is Te Pito o Te Henua, meaning ‘The Center (or Navel) of the World.’ In the 1860’s Tahitian sailors gave the island the name Rapa Nui, meaning ‘Great Rapa,’ due to its resemblance to another island in Polynesia called Rapa Iti, meaning ‘Little Rapa’. The island received its most well known current name, Easter Island, from the Dutch sea captain Jacob Roggeveen who became the first European to visit Easter Sunday, April 5, 1722. That culture's most famous features are its enormous stone tiki statues called moai, at least 288 of which once stood upon massive stone platforms called ahu. There are some 250 of these ahu platforms spaced approximately one half mile apart and creating an almost unbroken line around the perimeter of the island. Another 600 moai statues, in various stages of completion, are scattered around the island, either in quarries or along ancient roads between the quarries and the coastal areas where the tiki statues were most often erected. Nearly all the moai are carved from the tough stone of the Rano Raraku volcano. The average statue is 14 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs 14 tons. Some moai were as large as 33 feet and weighed more than 80 tons (one statue only partially quarried from the bedrock was 65 feet long and would have weighed an estimated 270 tons). Depending upon the size of the tiki statues, it has been estimated that between 50 and 150 people were needed to drag them across the countryside on sleds and rollers made from the island's trees.

Other antique architectural items, delivery, experienced installation, and consultation available Scott 303-641-0466 [email protected]

Location: Denver, downtown