Post #501066 by Bay Park Buzzy on Sun, Dec 27, 2009 10:27 PM

On 2009-12-27 20:35, pali-uli wrote:
Any help?

I have a thread over on marketplace where I charge $1 to authenticate Tiki items. Here's a free sample of what I do:

The one on the left is from Papau New Guinea (PNG). It looks kind of newish, probably mass produced and imported for someplace like Cost Plus or Pier One. A real one wouldn't be painted with paint like that one and wouldn't have a hole in top to hang on a wall.

Here are few PNG pieces with some similar features to yours:


Here's a new touristy unpainted piece like it that I have:

Here's a thread on TC of people's PNG pieces:
Share your Papua New Guinea pieces

You'll notice the nicer pieces on that thread all have that neat faded black, white, and red pigment thing going. On the real pieces,they would have used charcoal, shell, and mud stuck to it instead of paint.

Now on to the other piece:

The one on the right probably came from Honduras, Costa Rica, Mexico, or Jamaica...One of those non tiki type places. Some kind of Beardman wizard hippie folk art guy...definitely not tiki. Nothing on it is similar, inspired, or related to any of styles of traditional Oceanic Arts. Might even be mountain or okie art. But those are all just guesses as to what it is outside of it not being any type of Oceanic piece...I don't really know much about those other type of art styles.

Anyone who didn't know what those pieces were and learned about them from my post should paypal me one dollar.
Thanks!
Buzzy out!

[ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2009-12-27 22:32 ]