Holiday House, Kingman, AZ (motel) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, May 17, 2011 12:14 PM Yup, those were the ones I always passed over in thrift stores, they once were as common and cheap as the big spoon & fork sets here in Southern California. There are some passable examples, though. There have been posts about these here, in response to Tiki finds...but maybe I am thinking about the more Asian looking "pointy fangs" Devil masks....I think those may constitute their own genre of carved tourist crap. The one on the left has a distinctly Hawaiian Ku-style mouth, though: ...which, come to think of it, does not necessarily mean that the Mexico theory is wrong, these tourist stores offered a merry mixture of multi-cultural pieces. If this postcard had better resolution, we could zoom into the black velvet and determine if it was a Mexican motif. All of a sudden it looks kinda like a bullfighter to me. :) [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2011-05-17 12:22 ]

Yup, those were the ones I always passed over in thrift stores, they once were as common and cheap as the big spoon & fork sets here in Southern California. There are some passable examples, though.

There have been posts about these here, in response to Tiki finds...but maybe I am thinking about the more Asian looking "pointy fangs" Devil masks....I think those may constitute their own genre of carved tourist crap.

The one on the left has a distinctly Hawaiian Ku-style mouth, though:

...which, come to think of it, does not necessarily mean that the Mexico theory is wrong, these tourist stores offered a merry mixture of multi-cultural pieces.

If this postcard had better resolution, we could zoom into the black velvet and determine if it was a Mexican motif. All of a sudden it looks kinda like a bullfighter to me. :)

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2011-05-17 12:22 ]

Post #589548 by bigbrotiki on Tue, May 17, 2011 12:14 PM