big lots 2010 - Tiki Marketplace

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, Mar 8, 2010 1:18 AM On 2010-03-07 16:06, Tipsy McStagger wrote: ....the other tikis look sculpted by someone that never saw a tiki..... Very common with low budget Tiki nowadays, since it is all manufactured (and apparently designed too) in Asia, where they have no clue about Polynesian artifacts. The above candle holder is really funny that way: Not only that Mai Tiki's Pineapple heads are at the low end of the Tiki-taste totem pole, now the Chinese have misinterpreted the pineapple into some abstract thing. Maybe all this time we did not realize that those old Hawaiian Ku and Kane headdresses actually were abstract renderings of PINEAPPLES! :lol:

On 2010-03-07 16:06, Tipsy McStagger wrote:
....the other tikis look sculpted by someone that never saw a tiki.....

Very common with low budget Tiki nowadays, since it is all manufactured (and apparently designed too) in Asia, where they have no clue about Polynesian artifacts. The above candle holder is really funny that way: Not only that Mai Tiki's Pineapple heads are at the low end of the Tiki-taste totem pole, now the Chinese have misinterpreted the pineapple into some abstract thing. Maybe all this time we did not realize that those old Hawaiian Ku and Kane headdresses actually were abstract renderings of PINEAPPLES! :lol:

Post #515832 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Mar 8, 2010 1:18 AM