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Post #559763 by Chip and Andy on Thu, Oct 14, 2010 7:42 AM

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The overall Light value, and the sunglasses, point to more southern locales.... I'm going to say California.

She looks like a Mom so her fashions would be just a wee bit out of date with what was current making the Tiki being painted sort of jive with the style of her outfit.

And the Tiki looks like it might have been carved and then placed on that stump, and not actually carved in place. The stump looks like concrete.

And, if you look behind the bench there is what looks like an Umbrella Plant (http://www.plant-care.com/schefflera-arboricola.html) and even the dwarf variety grows to 20 feet or more here in Florida. The sample behind the bench is nice and small.

That is my two cents worth of photo archeology.