Post #436286 by Mister Naufrago on Wed, Feb 25, 2009 1:12 AM

On 2009-02-24 18:04, bigbrotiki wrote:
You are absolutely right:
A.) Sellers on e-bay will offer anything remotely primitive or mask-like as Tiki to raise its perceived value.
B.) Souvenir stores ANYWHERE (that includes Hawaii) will import any object from any country and sell it as their own culture's handicraft as long as it vaguely fits the bill.
C.) Why worry further where it's from, it IS just an ugly thing with big earrings.Or, my favorite genre description for tourist art, a "nameless piece of hacked wood". Now if that Dean't help you with your attachment problem. :D

Well it´s more than an ugly thing with big earrings.
It´s an an ugly thing with big earrings and three faces.
I can´t help wondering the whys (impossible to find out)and the wheres (usually an easier question to answer) of this kind of stuff.

Giving it a second thought, that it probably doesn´t deserve, I found some similarities with this: