Post #498894 by Bay Park Buzzy on Mon, Dec 14, 2009 1:17 AM

Those doors are pretty cool.
Maybe it's all the pills I took earlier, but for some reason when I look at them...

On 2009-12-13 11:58, Tiki TC wrote:

I can't stop my mind from thinking I'm seeing a tiki with Minotaur legs:

At least that's what I see right now...

On 2009-12-13 11:36, Psycho Tiki D wrote:
Nicely carved Ku wooden tiki. Has a marked on the back of 043. Does anyone know who may have carved this?

I'm pretty sure it's from a company called The Tonga Trading Co., Ltd.
It would have come with a set of tags like this(pictures from a piece I have with all the tags from the same company):

The English booklet has the name and history behind the original piece that the reproduction is based on.

Inside it also has a serial number for the piece as well as a stamped impression with the date of production on it(Dec 29, 1971, on this one)

The serial matches the stamped number impressed on the piece

The "4" on your piece and this one are the same

They were souvineer reproduction pieces made to scale from original Hawaiian carvings. Here's the whole piece that I have, which the book informs me is in quarter scale

And the original it was based on:

Here's the original of your piece, the pig head Ku:

Buzzy Out!