Tiki Finds - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Apr 12, 2011 6:20 AM PTD, where is all this gonna GO!? :D I bet you have a space problem similar to mine... Never seen anything form the Merced Lanai, that is a cool matchbook! Looks like Balinese palm front masks. "Lanai" always sounds like those hotel lounges that jumped on the Polynesian train to me. And there seem to have been quite a few Fireside Restaurants too... That stuff - sorry, those artefacts - all looks PNG to me. Tourist pieces, but WWII tourist pieces! I never understand how scholars draw the line with PNG stuff between tourist and museum pieces, when there was no break in the carving tradition and the manufacture from ritual to souvenir art was seamless. There are turn-of-the century tourist pieces in museums, so why not mid-century.

PTD, where is all this gonna GO!? :D I bet you have a space problem similar to mine...

Never seen anything form the Merced Lanai, that is a cool matchbook! Looks like Balinese palm front masks. "Lanai" always sounds like those hotel lounges that jumped on the Polynesian train to me. And there seem to have been quite a few Fireside Restaurants too...

That stuff - sorry, those artefacts - all looks PNG to me. Tourist pieces, but WWII tourist pieces! I never understand how scholars draw the line with PNG stuff between tourist and museum pieces, when there was no break in the carving tradition and the manufacture from ritual to souvenir art was seamless. There are turn-of-the century tourist pieces in museums, so why not mid-century.

Post #584561 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Apr 12, 2011 6:20 AM