Tiki Central / General Tiki / Tiki Hut Tarzana?
Post #739293 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Mar 14, 2015 12:30 PM
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Very nice Tiki sleuthing, DC. Since its publication in the BOT, that iconic "Club Tiki" matchbook has appeared on nouveaux Tiki items like this:
Let's do a Tiki line-up here: The Tiki on the matchbook seems to be based on Mike Gildea's carvings:
The Tiki in the news archive photo is actually an Andres Bumatay Tiki:
So we already have works from two classic LA Tiki carvers involved with the two businesses. But what does that make GoTiki's little carving from the Tiki Hut? What we have here is a Pacific tourist carving, but one that has a fascinating evolution from authentic tradition to souvenir:
What interests me about its case is that I see a parallel to one of MY favorite subjects: I have a theory that my pet "Tahitian Cannibal Carvings" are based on authentic figures that do not exist anymore, also. But back to the "Monkeyman" or "Tobi figure" (as they are known) at hand. Though not looking Tiki, I have had one of those little guys in my collection for years:
I had always liked its modern simplicity. So I was thrilled to find that here we have the only case I know of where an ethnologist took tourist art seriously and traced it back to its origins and wrote about it:
There is also a website with more links to Monkeymen collections:
…and this wonderful Paul Jacoulet print of a Micronesian carver:
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