Post #513410 by Bay Park Buzzy on Thu, Feb 25, 2010 1:13 PM

I call it a "Lono", to keep it nice and simple...

However, most those names given to standard Hawaiian tikis were ascribed by makers and marketers of those souvineer tikis, back in the day. Some names stuck over time and that's what we call them now...

Like this picture here:

On 2010-02-25 12:15, Beachbumz wrote:

The source of that rendering are these common Coco Joe's figures, and are referenced by what Coco Joe's named them

If you want to get all anthroscientific about it:

This is Lono:

This looks like what we call a Lono, but is referred to as a Kona style temple image


The temple images were the larger sized carvings

the ones on sticks in that style are called Akua ka'ai


They're the smaller ones

Hope that helps.
Buzz Out!