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, Dec 15, 2013 9:20 AM Unquestioningly so..where did you get the term "whakapokoko" from? From this book? : The Natural History of Man by J G Wood (George Routledge, 1870) Thank you from making me aware of this book. The illustration above makes it sound like whakapokoko is an area, or a place, not a type of carving. I could not find the term in the online Maori dictionary, and have not seen it as a term in any Maori carving books before. What was the response from the museums you sent it to? If they could not identify it because it has no equal in their Maori collections, it might be a tourist item. What might be interesting is to compare it to other Polynesian culture groups' tools/utensils. One can make out the serrated edge on implements in this old postcard from Hawaii: I have no idea though what they were used for, sorry.

Unquestioningly so..where did you get the term "whakapokoko" from? From this book? :

The Natural History of Man by J G Wood (George Routledge, 1870)

Thank you from making me aware of this book. The illustration above makes it sound like whakapokoko is an area, or a place, not a type of carving. I could not find the term in the online Maori dictionary, and have not seen it as a term in any Maori carving books before.

What was the response from the museums you sent it to? If they could not identify it because it has no equal in their Maori collections, it might be a tourist item.

What might be interesting is to compare it to other Polynesian culture groups' tools/utensils. One can make out the serrated edge on implements in this old postcard from Hawaii:

I have no idea though what they were used for, sorry.

Post #702146 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Dec 15, 2013 9:20 AM