Post #516085 by Bay Park Buzzy on Tue, Mar 9, 2010 12:17 PM

Just matches this week, and not many at that:

On 2010-02-28 16:26, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
how about some info on some of the booty!

On 2010-03-01 13:38, bigbrotiki wrote:
Buzzy, amazing Marquesan stash, weird about the doubling up of items, almost as if someone imported these from Tahiti/the Marquesas to sell them here.

I went back and looked at some log books from the traveller who brought these pieces back from the islands. He had two different long range travel yachts over the years,in which he kept incredibly detailed notes of his journeys. The first boat he mostly just went up and down the coast of Mexico, starting in the late 70's. At some point in these Mexico travels he picked up a lady named Nikki, who seemed to be his partner/lover for the rest of his travels. After meeting up with her, they headed out to the pacific islands for several years. Distinct places mentioned that I remember include: Tahiti, the Marquesas, the Pitcairns, Tonga, Fiji, and a whole mess of others I'd ahd and hadn't heard of... the common link seemed to be that his home port was always San Diego.
He first went to the Tahiti Marquesas area in 1983 and again in 1989. This is when I presume that he picked up the items. As for the doubling up, the oars were probably made and sold as a set. They have the same tiki face on each, but all the other details are different. The small matching knives were all personalized. One each to the boat guy, Edmond, and the other one to Nikki. The other two were to "Edmond and amigo Nikki"; and then one looks to be a gift for "Mike and Maria" and is personalized to them.
Stuff I didn;t buy from the guy's estate were all the logs books and all his photo books. Some of the photos he had in Tahiti showed the stone tikis. There were about ten or so of those He also had a bunch of books and pamphlets he bought along the way. there were also several 16mm films labelled from different Pacific Islands. (I was in hurry, so I didn;t check out a lot of that stuff too closely) there were also all kinds of receipts and customs stuff. way too much to look at in the time window I had.
An interesting thing included in the pile of stuff were hundreds of pages of hand written journals by Nikki. They document all the trips almost daily. Unfortunately, they are all in Spanish, and my three semesters of college Spanish experience and years of stumbling through Bajasurfspanish are not suitable enough to decipher them.
I'l go back and grab some more info this weekend, if it isn't raining again...

Buzzy Out!