Post #565056 by aquarj on Sun, Nov 14, 2010 8:30 PM

Hi Humu -
On first look I would've said Poly Art too, like Taboo Dan. But I think this might be from one of the mystery lava makers. Buzzy's mega-post in the coco joes thread has become a de-facto reference, and sure enough, he has a shot of a similar one...

On 2009-11-03 11:46, Bay Park Buzzy wrote:
Unmarked and Holo Ka Hana

A little more commentary on this. Coco Joe and HIP each had kind of recognizable face styles when they sculpted humans - if you're a lava nerd like me, you can easily tell a HIP girl from a CJ girl. So, the typical CJ Kamehameha bust is easy to recognize without even looking for a marking, and these pieces are obviously very different from that. Poly Art is a little different because they produced some bizarro stuff that has nothing to do with their other items. Probably they had a number of different sculptors. So as Buzzy's pic shows, clearly there was somebody who sculpted a series of these busts with that same style as your pieces, including a female one with a very similar face. But I don't know if that's Poly Art, or maybe Holo Ka Hana (hafta ask Buzzy which one's which in his pic), or maybe totally unmarked. Could be these busts predate the whole CJ/HIP era.

Or maybe Freddie House of Ku knows more. He knows everything about this stuff!

BTW, those feather helmets they wear are called mahi'ole.

-Randy