Post #723191 by Bay Park Buzzy on Sun, Jul 20, 2014 8:11 PM

On 2014-07-20 13:54, ErichTroudt wrote:
Is that what the little monkey pod warrior is?
It's marked with a patent number and "hand carved in hawaii monkey pod" on the bottom.

Now what's up with the giant hula girl? Never seen one that big or heavy... Bookend? Or just a big statue?
Marked HIP 1973...

Here's the patent page from for it one of the 3 TC threads on Tiki Patents:

It had a glass dipper that came out of the head and the body had a perfume jar in it. The jar was loose, I assumed so you could switch fragrances. The one I had, the bottle was marked with a printed sticker that had the perfume's name.

One of my favorite all time pieces is the hapawood sister version of her:

Don't know if they were intended as bookends, but most of the Jumbo HIPS had much smaller matching versions in the more standard sizes as well. There's a set of dancers and drummers by them that are pretty tall.
I think the tallest I've seen so far is this Coco Joes:

HIP made a few Jumbo sized tikis too. Here is a couple I have:

At some point or another, pretty much any tiki with a flat back will be listed as a bookend on ebay. HIP did sell several smaller pieces as sets of two, with stickers that described them as bookends. I would think if the big ones were intended as bookends, the tags would denote that.

Buzzy Out!