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From the thread Origin of early Trader Vic's logo Tiki found!
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=24081&forum=1&vpost=306241&hilite=pad
On 2007-05-14 11:23, bigbrotiki wrote:
On 2007-05-13 22:05, SoccerTiki wrote:
Would that book be "Arts of the South Seas", 1946 Museum of Modern Art, New York???
I am confused about this question. Are you saying it IS in that book? If so, I can't find it in there...
I thought it would be clear that "Arts of The South Seas" would be the first book where I would look, as well as "Oceanic Art" (1954), and I would have found it in their pages. These two books were used quite a bit by 50s/60s Tiki temple designers and Tiki carvers, because they were among the earliest out there when the trend took off. But by the end of the 50s/early 60s there were many more Oceanic/primitive art books available, just look at this:
...No!, not THIS, but THAT :roll: :
In this impressive book shelf we find the titles "Oceanic Sculpture","Art of the South Pacific Islands","Folk Art of Oceania","Native art of the Pacific something","The Arts of The South Pacific", and lots more Primitive Art books. I don't even have half of these. Nor do I have that lamp...
Is there anything else? Oh yeah, the above photo also proves that research CAN be fun, and that if you were a primitive/modern art coinoisseur in the 60s, you had nekkid chicks hanging out around your pad.
BUT back to the Logo Tiki at hand: He made his first appearance as early as 1955, (that is the copyright on the Traders Beverly Hills menu), when most of these books weren't around yet. So the fact that he is NOT in the two first mentioned, early Oceanic Art books makes it very likely that he was either
A) in an early 50s DeYoung Museum catalog,
B) in an SF newspaper Magazine article about the museum or the Oceanic Art trend, or
C) even owned (and later bestowed to the museum) by the Trader himself.
If a local TCer would go to the De Young museum library/archive, and search and ask them for the history of that Tiki and any pre '55 catalogs/publications, we might find out more.
After I realized there was more in that picture besides the books I noticed other things in the photo.
For example it appears that that is a gazelle or antelope hide on the floor.
Note the similarity to the gazelle hides I used in that science fiction movie I was involved with.
I wonder is there any information to go with the photo?
Since there likely isn't - I'll contribute a theory on
this oceanic books mystery.
I'd guess the woman whose legs are blocking the view of some of the books is
Maria McNeal. Though obviously she may just be very similar to Maria McNeal?
This is the sort of thing scientific debate will help solve.
From an auction specifically stating the name.
And I suspect this is her also
from Modern Man Deluxe Quarterly - Winter 1973
which is the sort of publication I'd guess the Oceanic Art books images originally appeared.
[ Edited by: martian-tiki 2010-06-04 22:09 ]
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