Post #505545 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Tue, Jan 19, 2010 6:18 PM

I know, I know, we've seen the article on how to carve a tiki in Popular Mechanics before. However this time I mean "Tiki" in the more general sense. Google Books has now archived Popular Mechanics magazine online, so you can search way back and find all kinds of articles related to Tiki and Polynesian Pop. I've found a few, but if you do a search within the magazine similar to this:

http://books.google.com/books?ei=utRLS5eDLY_YsQOds6mjCw&ct=result&as_pt=MAGAZINES&q=tiki&as_coll2=+issn%3A0032-4558+

...you can probably find plenty more.

Let's start with the pre-tiki decade of the 1920s. I noticed several Popular Mechanics articles taking advantage of the Frank Burnett collection of Oceanic artifacts. Here's a few:

:down: Oct 1922

:down: Sep 1923

:down: Jun 1927