Post #661859 by tikiskip on Tue, Dec 18, 2012 10:58 AM

Thanks Sven I hoped you would shed some light on this.
And I had not seen that thread before.
It was Jonpauls thread on books that led me to this book.
Also years ago when I went to a carving class Swanky put on
there were carvers there that had a few books on Oceanic arts
with them.
I knew at that time I wanted to get some books on the subject.
Saw this on the link you posted.
Quote:

So to sum it up----OA did not carve any large tiki's for the Mai Kai. Once we introduced Demetrio to Carter, Carter had some masks made from the New Guinea museum designs from the book Oceanic Art. When Carter moved to WestWood OA had many more patterns carved by Demetrio.

So Demetrio may have been the carver of the large board I have from the Kahiki.
This is why I say always sign your work.
Both OA and Bensons did work for the Kahiki.

And on the odd way this seem to fall into place for you on the book ect..
The same thing happend to me with the Kahiki, it's the reason I started the Kahiki thread.
Info and people and stuff just started poping up, Droped in my lap.
Not wanting this info ect to be lost I put it here.
Thanks for your help.

TIKISKIP: Maker of TIKI bar lighting, Let me make one for you.

[ Edited by: tikiskip 2012-12-18 10:59 ]