Aloha Jhoe's, Palm Springs, CA (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

STCB Sabu The Coconut Boy Tiki Socialite Carson, California Joined: Aug 20, 2002 Posts: 2813	STCB Sabu The Coconut Boy Posted posted on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 8:32 PM DC - Very cool ashtray. I have 2 vases in that motif as well. There's a whole line of ceramics that Sascha Brastoff released in the "tiki" pattern. I put tiki in quotes because some of the faces look tiki, like that one, while others are stacked like totem poles and have other Native American features. It's almost as if Sascha was dipping into both cultures as he painted them. Bigbro - Another of those mask variations shows up at the Daydream Island resort in Australia during the early 1970s: It bears some slight resemblance to this photo you posted: What do you think? Poly-Pop creation with Flower-Power daisies around the eyes? Or actual artifact from nearby PNG? [ Edited by: Sabu The Coconut Boy 2009-09-15 20:39 ]

DC - Very cool ashtray. I have 2 vases in that motif as well. There's a whole line of ceramics that Sascha Brastoff released in the "tiki" pattern. I put tiki in quotes because some of the faces look tiki, like that one, while others are stacked like totem poles and have other Native American features. It's almost as if Sascha was dipping into both cultures as he painted them.

Bigbro - Another of those mask variations shows up at the Daydream Island resort in Australia during the early 1970s:

It bears some slight resemblance to this photo you posted:

What do you think? Poly-Pop creation with Flower-Power daisies around the eyes? Or actual artifact from nearby PNG?

[ Edited by: Sabu The Coconut Boy 2009-09-15 20:39 ]

Post #483622 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 8:32 PM