A Collection of Cannibals - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 10:29 PM Quite funny...but please let's not let this thread deteriorate into a Cannibal joke or all-about-cannibalism thread, there is too much fun to be had with the Cannibal Carving subject in itself. Thank you for the Crane Cannibal dokumentation, GatorRob! Kirby, you probably mean this guy from The Tikis: ...and no, I don't think there is an ancient precedent, he is pure Polynesian pop. The concept in modern Tikidom of a head or figure between the legs is not neccessarily connected with the Cannibal concept, but often might be inspired by another ancient Polynesian tradition, that of the Maori: ...where it was connected with ancestor myths about birth, creation, maybe subjugation, but never cannibalism.

Quite funny...but please let's not let this thread deteriorate into a Cannibal joke or all-about-cannibalism thread, there is too much fun to be had with the Cannibal Carving subject in itself.

Thank you for the Crane Cannibal dokumentation, GatorRob!

Kirby, you probably mean this guy from The Tikis:

...and no, I don't think there is an ancient precedent, he is pure Polynesian pop.

The concept in modern Tikidom of a head or figure between the legs is not neccessarily connected with the Cannibal concept, but often might be inspired by another ancient Polynesian tradition, that of the Maori:

...where it was connected with ancestor myths about birth, creation, maybe subjugation, but never cannibalism.

Post #483642 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 10:29 PM