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Post #745341 by martian-tiki on Sun, Jun 21, 2015 9:08 PM

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in my opinion it is a mashup of influences ...marquesan tiki for the body and the face has the sharp jeweled eyes of a Maori design.

also interesting are the hieroglyphs. I'm reading a 1930s book on Polynesian culture and the author makes analogies to ancient Egypt falling just short of directly linking them.