The real Dr. Funk - Tiki Drinks and Food

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 6:54 AM Tom, thank you for the connection between Dr.Funk and Godeffroy, I had no idea. It is heartening to see that there are folks who are digging into PRE-Pre-Tiki history, especially into a part where my own background and Tiki Style converge. Growing up in Germany until I was 25, I never had any direct contact or memory of mid-century American Tiki like many here did. However, coming from a shipping line family (a traditional business in the port town of Hamburg), I do have roots in the original trader history: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=27345&forum=16&vpost=361045&hilite=godeffroy I also had referred to the Godeffroy family here before... http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=10096&forum=1&vpost=104061&hilite=godeffroy ...but failed to mention that I knew one of the grand-grand daughters personally. So I did go to see a recent exhibition on their collection in Hamburg: Luckily, the Hamburg Museum fuer Volkerkunde managed to to get the OTHER large part of the collection, after the Leipzig Museum had beat them to the first. I almost made it to the Leipzig Museum when I was shooting in Dresden last year. There are a bunch of museums in smaller German cities that I still need to visit that have some great collections of Oceanic artifacts, like the Bremen Overseas Museum... ....and the Linden Museum in Stuttgart There's even a book out called "Hidden Treasures from German Ethnographic Museums"... http://www.amazon.com/Verborgene-Völkerkundemuseen-Lippisches-Landesmuseum-10-10-2003/dp/B006MJLLJM/ref=sr_1_13?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328538783&sr=1-13 ...because they amassed so many artifacts in the 19th Century through their colonies. On a related note, I made some progress in my research regarding the origins of the book that was the blueprint for American Tiki carvers, "Oceanic Art", as mentioned here: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=42034&forum=1&vpost=621592 I found out that the author of the book, Herbert Tischner, was indeed the head of the South Seas department of the Hamburg Museum at the time. I still need to verify if the exhibition which the book is based on took place there, also. In the meantime I got a wonderful little book by him on RAURU, my favorite Maori meeting house now in that museum: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=33736&forum=16&vpost=580743

Tom, thank you for the connection between Dr.Funk and Godeffroy, I had no idea. It is heartening to see that there are folks who are digging into PRE-Pre-Tiki history, especially into a part where my own background and Tiki Style converge. Growing up in Germany until I was 25, I never had any direct contact or memory of mid-century American Tiki like many here did. However, coming from a shipping line family (a traditional business in the port town of Hamburg), I do have roots in the original trader history:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=27345&forum=16&vpost=361045&hilite=godeffroy

I also had referred to the Godeffroy family here before...
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=10096&forum=1&vpost=104061&hilite=godeffroy

...but failed to mention that I knew one of the grand-grand daughters personally. So I did go to see a recent exhibition on their collection in Hamburg:

Luckily, the Hamburg Museum fuer Volkerkunde managed to to get the OTHER large part of the collection, after the Leipzig Museum had beat them to the first. I almost made it to the Leipzig Museum when I was shooting in Dresden last year. There are a bunch of museums in smaller German cities that I still need to visit that have some great collections of Oceanic artifacts, like the Bremen Overseas Museum...

....and the Linden Museum in Stuttgart

There's even a book out called "Hidden Treasures from German Ethnographic Museums"...
http://www.amazon.com/Verborgene-Völkerkundemuseen-Lippisches-Landesmuseum-10-10-2003/dp/B006MJLLJM/ref=sr_1_13?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328538783&sr=1-13
...because they amassed so many artifacts in the 19th Century through their colonies.

On a related note, I made some progress in my research regarding the origins of the book that was the blueprint for American Tiki carvers, "Oceanic Art", as mentioned here:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=42034&forum=1&vpost=621592

I found out that the author of the book, Herbert Tischner, was indeed the head of the South Seas department of the Hamburg Museum at the time. I still need to verify if the exhibition which the book is based on took place there, also. In the meantime I got a wonderful little book by him on RAURU, my favorite Maori meeting house now in that museum:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=33736&forum=16&vpost=580743

Post #623783 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 6:54 AM