Post #669256 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Mar 1, 2013 10:51 AM

Looking at the original that this guy was based on, I can't help but feel that the carver was making a point in portraying him as such a chubster :)

In Tiki-carving the head, as the seat of mana, was usually oversized, sometimes 1/3 of the whole figure. That's why Tikis with naturalistic, normal head-to-body proportions look slightly wrong, often. It also gives Tikis a kinship with caricatures and cartoons that inspired many mid-century Tiki artists.