Tiki Finds - Collecting Tiki

BPB Bay Park Buzzy Tiki Socialite West Bay Park, San Diego, CA Joined: Apr 07, 2006 Posts: 3066	BPB Bay Park Buzzy Posted posted on Mon, Dec 15, 2014 10:14 PM My computer was down and it was too much of a pain in the ass to post from my phone/Kindle so here's a catch up post of stuff I found since my last post(In no particular order) 7 foot by 15 foot tapa piece It has some cool rose motifs: 3 foot by 9 foot tapa It's got some great geometry gonig on there 3 foot by 4 foot fiji tapa 12" by 18" tapa My grass looks way better since those photos, after those couple rainstorms rolled through. Bring it El Nino! Plaster marwal tribute hula head: took the dog a few nights to figure out she wasn't real: Unfinished Guam carved wood stand thing. Guy told me it was for Pan American Airlines. He pretty much gave it to me... even though I didn't want it. My sympathy buy. 1965 Paradise of the Pacific magazine Leeteg ad when you open it: didn't hook up the scanner yet so here's a blurry copy to read A bunch more cool period ads and an article on Leeteg in it Small big lots ETR tiki: Pair of Hilton Hawaiian Village mugs The price tag said "tiki" on it so I bought it: I think it's a real tall PNG guy missing something on his head Everthing but the head on it is PNG looking I'm looking for a small wall hanger to fashion him a mask I bought a pair of plastic (old halloween mask thickness)tikis with cardboard supports. They looked manufactured that way. After I brought them home, I noticed they had contact paper on the foreheads. Zaya looked at them and said she could see a logo underneath in the right light. I peeled one off and found it was a logo for Hawaiian Surf for men aftershave Found a piece to a waka, but didn't didn't find the rest. Paid $1 for it just on case it turned up later in the seller's mess. I checked back with the seller for 3 weeks and no luck. I had him looking for it for me but he never saw it Then a week later another lady had a parted out waka that almost matched my piece: Everything aligned for me on that one. Now i need the other prow piece... Favorite find was this really detailed 20" easter island tangata manu. It was mixed in with a pile of junk asian carvings PNG wall hanger. I think a shell fell out of the mouth. If not, I'm still adding a shell to the mouth. Old hand sewn hula head band Neat shell clusters all hand stiched on More head gear. Are white fezzes for chicks? 12" diameter plain carved maori plate/dish A trio of peanut mugs Two are marked and kind of rare: Island Heritage handled mug and a pair of Chiki Tiki s+p from jamaica 4 Harvey's mugs I bought for good luck, hoping the tiki find floodgates would open after a month long drought Moai tissue dislpenser: Daga bamboo mug and Trader Sam's zombie mug Trader Vic's Lady Menehune stirrer stick end: Until I find more... Buzzy Out!

My computer was down and it was too much of a pain in the ass to post from my phone/Kindle so here's a catch up post of stuff I found since my last post(In no particular order)

7 foot by 15 foot tapa piece

It has some cool rose motifs:

3 foot by 9 foot tapa

It's got some great geometry gonig on there

3 foot by 4 foot fiji tapa

12" by 18" tapa

My grass looks way better since those photos, after those couple rainstorms rolled through. Bring it El Nino!

Plaster marwal tribute hula head:

took the dog a few nights to figure out she wasn't real:

Unfinished Guam carved wood stand thing. Guy told me it was for Pan American Airlines. He pretty much gave it to me...

even though I didn't want it. My sympathy buy.

1965 Paradise of the Pacific magazine

Leeteg ad when you open it:

didn't hook up the scanner yet so here's a blurry copy to read

A bunch more cool period ads and an article on Leeteg in it

Small big lots ETR tiki:

Pair of Hilton Hawaiian Village mugs

The price tag said "tiki" on it so I bought it:

I think it's a real tall PNG guy missing something on his head

Everthing but the head on it is PNG looking

I'm looking for a small wall hanger to fashion him a mask

I bought a pair of plastic (old halloween mask thickness)tikis with cardboard supports. They looked manufactured that way. After I brought them home, I noticed they had contact paper on the foreheads. Zaya looked at them and said she could see a logo underneath in the right light.

I peeled one off and found it was a logo for Hawaiian Surf for men aftershave

Found a piece to a waka, but didn't didn't find the rest. Paid $1 for it just on case it turned up later in the seller's mess. I checked back with the seller for 3 weeks and no luck. I had him looking for it for me but he never saw it

Then a week later another lady had a parted out waka that almost matched my piece:

Everything aligned for me on that one. Now i need the other prow piece...