Post #618857 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Dec 27, 2011 5:03 PM

This statue is certainly based on the Kona Kai/Trader Vic Tiki, but this particular version looks like a closer match to THIS logo:

...posted by Swanky and Biffcoz (R.I.P.) in this thread:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=35542&forum=2&hilite=Myrtle%20beach

Maybe it was made for and sold at their gift shop?:

Claims of origin are hard to ascertain nowadays, because any seller with interest in Tiki can come across some of these posts here and SEE that this Tiki form was used by such and such restaurant and then announce it as being from there.