Post #625606 by Dustycajun on Sun, Feb 19, 2012 11:20 AM

On 2012-02-16 23:19, bigbrotiki wrote:
It's a souvenir from New Caledonia, depicting a chief's hut:

Two types of carvings from these structures made it into Polynesian pop: The roof finial...

Find the roof finial in this line up! :

Thanks for the info Bigbro. I always wondered where the figure from the Bali Hai menu came from

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=13432&forum=2&hilite=bali hai

Obviously a New Caledonian hut roof finial.

DC