Post #445456 by vanzac on Tue, Apr 7, 2009 1:59 PM

About 25 years ago, I found a chess game, in a fruit market in "Martinique" F.W.I.!! It was made of ebony and tropical red wood, composed of 32 little marvels: the guy who sold me this chess game pretented it came from a sailor coming from the Pacific (which after all, was not that far, right after the Panama Canal!!!) As I was mad about chess and I also had a real passion fort African Art and Tribal Art. But I knew zip about Polynesia!!
I bought it. Long after around year 2000, I happened to live in Tahiti for a couple of years and soon realized that it was not tahitian at all!!!
But it's quite nice anyway just have a look at them!
(and check my blog : http://www.tahitiblues.blogspot.com / You'll find hundreds of tatoo patterns, sketches, waterpainting and photos about Marquesan ancestral sculpture,,, and many stories (sorry, most of themare in french but you can pass them through Babel !!)

stephane

My "Afro-Tahitian"tiki chess game: