Post #545139 by Club Nouméa on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 1:04 AM

Here are a few more photos of the work in progress. As you can see above and below, the tikification has already spread from the bar area into my general living room area, and looks like being unstoppable....

To start off, here are a couple of better photos of the PNG carvings at each end of the bar:

I am slowly building up the bar clutter with new pieces.

A fernwood carving from Vanuatu (approximately 16 inches tall):

He was fastened to the wall by sitting him on a bracket and drilling a screw into him in a sphincter-clenching location, at the risk of incurring the wrath of the ancestral gods of Ambrym. It was either that or place him in a pot, but I doubt whether the angry gods would have been very happy with the household cat using this fine piece of soft malleable wood as a scratching post either...

A couple of pieces of Hawaiian tapa (kapa), alongside the PNG club/mace/axe thing:

These two small pieces date from the late 19th century and were a birthday present from my companion Ms Nouméa. They form part of a family collection of tapa given to one of her ancestors (who was a member of the Dole clan) by a Hawaiian princess. Some of this collection now resides in a museum in Hawaii.

A bow and arrows from Papua New Guinea:

The arrows are nicely detailed:

I have put them up on the wall on the other side of the lounge from the bar:

This collecting stuff is nice, but I still have to get onto renovating the area behind the bar. As can be seen, some shelves are desperately needed:

CN