Post #444743 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Apr 3, 2009 9:13 PM

On 2009-04-03 08:52, laojia wrote:
That was included in a comic strip Tintin: Flight 714 to Sydney " by Hergé, the scenario is very "mondo":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_714

I do not have the comics near me, but I'm sure that this tiki is present.

Close, but no cigar. The eyes really seem similar because of the lids and their size in relation to the face, but the rest of the facial features are not Marquesan enough. The B&W photo above is a nice early shot of the "butterfly priestess". See description and recent photo here:

http://www.pbif.org/WebGallery/Default.aspx?directory=2211&action=View&sortorder=Ascending&dirsortorder=Ascending&file=2816

She was the wife of Manuitoaa, whose head I am talking about here:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=31804&forum=1&vpost=443195

They are both found on the same temple site.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2009-04-03 21:16 ]