Please Fill me in on tiki artist Andres Bumatay - General Tiki

M MadDogMike Grand Member (8 years) The Anvil of the Sun Joined: Mar 30, 2008 Posts: 11036	M MadDogMike Posted posted on Sun, Oct 10, 2010 7:00 AM On 2010-10-01 17:03, Sabu The Coconut Boy wrote: ...It's interesting that the nursery's owner uses the Hawaiian word "aumakua" to describe his tikis, as "aumakua" was the word referring to the smaller carved images that Hawaiians would have in their homes, and not the large temple images similar to what Bumatay was carving. It almost sounds like in the early days of the tiki-movement the true Hawaiians didn't like the American choice of "tiki"and were trying out different monikers. I'm glad the word "tiki" stuck eventually... Yeah, we could have ended up as Aumakua Central! :lol:

On 2010-10-01 17:03, Sabu The Coconut Boy wrote:

...It's interesting that the nursery's owner uses the Hawaiian word "aumakua" to describe his tikis, as "aumakua" was the word referring to the smaller carved images that Hawaiians would have in their homes, and not the large temple images similar to what Bumatay was carving. It almost sounds like in the early days of the tiki-movement the true Hawaiians didn't like the American choice of "tiki"and were trying out different monikers. I'm glad the word "tiki" stuck eventually...

Yeah, we could have ended up as Aumakua Central! :lol:

Post #558894 by MadDogMike on Sun, Oct 10, 2010 7:00 AM