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MAM mike and marie Tiki Socialite Sunken Studios \| The Current Year Joined: Jun 24, 2008 Posts: 442	MAM mike and marie Posted posted on Sun, Mar 15, 2015 6:46 PM Beautiful photo, bigbro! And good question. Don't have the answer, but we've been thinking about this lately, too, remembering some of the masks we saw at the Kahiki, and the few that we have from there actually seem African (especially with the red and yellow paint, and the elongated oval shape of the "face") and not Polynesian at all. The other thing that came from Mexico back in that time are those heavy, carved wood frames. We like them. Don't know if they were copies of anything else or something unique to Mexico (or Spain, perhaps), but certainly from Mexico most of them came...

Beautiful photo, bigbro! And good question. Don't have the answer, but we've been thinking about this lately, too, remembering some of the masks we saw at the Kahiki, and the few that we have from there actually seem African (especially with the red and yellow paint, and the elongated oval shape of the "face") and not Polynesian at all.

The other thing that came from Mexico back in that time are those heavy, carved wood frames. We like them. Don't know if they were copies of anything else or something unique to Mexico (or Spain, perhaps), but certainly from Mexico most of them came...

Post #739388 by mike and marie on Sun, Mar 15, 2015 6:46 PM