Post #59111 by Basement Kahuna on Sat, Nov 8, 2003 8:46 PM

Rattiki-thanks...didn't mean to get so haughty on that long-winded Minn. post. I sell by appointment here at my home, at Hukilau, and at the Mai Kai. I have some Samoan knife reproductions there right now. The real deal can be found through searching "fire knife" or "Samoan Knife" sometimes, but not often. Those I do are copied from real examples hanging in the Mai Kai, true to the place that sells them. I'm sure that PNG tiki will be great...I'm just passing it on to Brad at cost for the Hale Tiki backbar next year. Mon-the weapons are exact dupes of old styles, but on the tikis you'll see some degree of artistic license. I always try to be mindful of tradition as well....I respect the mana of the true, old Polynesian carvings and the amazing art of the South Pacific; I barely do it justice. I look at the effort a Maori with stone tools put into a hair comb, and it makes the efort I put into a house panel seem miniscule.