Help Identify, What Is This, Is This A? Thread - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sun, Apr 28, 2013 12:40 AM Well, he might have bought that ladle on Fiji - but that don't mean it was CARVED there :) As exemplified by the Philippine Handicraft store at the Seattle Worlds Fair... (not to be mixed up with the Philippine Pavilion at the Fair) ...by the 60s, Philippine Handicraft Industries had the tourist souvenir market in the Pacific islands supplied with all kinds of native art, carved in Ku or Moai or other forms, depending on the island. The most ubiquitous were the giant fork and spoon carvings, and on the left we can glimpse those ladles, too. In Tikidom, the "female" Ku carving (also known as "Surfing God") was used often, for example at The Polynesia in Seattle, or at Trader Vic's in S.F. It even became a mug at the Japanese Tiki Tiki restaurants And then there were those head hunter statues:

Well, he might have bought that ladle on Fiji - but that don't mean it was CARVED there :)

As exemplified by the Philippine Handicraft store at the Seattle Worlds Fair...

(not to be mixed up with the Philippine Pavilion at the Fair)

...by the 60s, Philippine Handicraft Industries had the tourist souvenir market in the Pacific islands supplied with all kinds of native art, carved in Ku or Moai or other forms, depending on the island.

The most ubiquitous were the giant fork and spoon carvings, and on the left we can glimpse those ladles, too.

In Tikidom, the "female" Ku carving (also known as "Surfing God") was used often, for example at The Polynesia in Seattle, or at Trader Vic's in S.F.

It even became a mug at the Japanese Tiki Tiki restaurants

And then there were those head hunter statues:

Post #675813 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Apr 28, 2013 12:40 AM