eBay: Large old weathered Tiki mask - Tiki Marketplace

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Mar 10, 2015 8:22 AM Nicely weathered, yeah...“very old tiki head”…I feel like that sometimes :) Not worth 369.- clams. Which brings to mind something I have been thinking about for a while: That, with all the Tiki carvings out there, good, cool Tiki MASKS are kinda rare. Yet there must have been a real demand for them. O.A had a nice line, but these cheap Mexican import masks dominate - even in otherwise cool Tiki temples, like here at the original Tropics Palm Springs: Was it the case that, just like today with the cheap Poly-Asian import crap, these masks were so inexpensive that they overwhelmed and suppressed quality mask carvings?

Nicely weathered, yeah...“very old tiki head”…I feel like that sometimes :)

Not worth 369.- clams. Which brings to mind something I have been thinking about for a while: That, with all the Tiki carvings out there, good, cool Tiki MASKS are kinda rare. Yet there must have been a real demand for them. O.A had a nice line, but these cheap Mexican import masks dominate - even in otherwise cool Tiki temples, like here at the original Tropics Palm Springs:

Was it the case that, just like today with the cheap Poly-Asian import crap, these masks were so inexpensive that they overwhelmed and suppressed quality mask carvings?

Post #739030 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Mar 10, 2015 8:22 AM