Post #747385 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Jul 19, 2015 10:23 AM

I hope she is talking about the same Andres Bumatay - there are others with that name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Bumatai

It seems strange that, while Tiki carver Andres Bumatay was most active and prolific in Southern California, the place is not mentioned in the bio. Meanwhile Hawaii and Washington state are cited as his home - but next to no Bumatay Tikis have been documented in the those states.

The only explanation I have is that Andrea at first was not born, and then too young to remember the California Tiki craze, and that as the fad was waning, Andres/Andy moved away from SoCal, and reduced his Tiki output.

But there were so many Tiki apartment complexes around Seattle and Tacoma, one would assume that he would have gotten involved with at least 1 or 2 projects up there, many of which were partially supplied by Oceanic Arts, who knew Richard Ellis and Bumatay.

But maybe this bio explains why he disappeared and was never heard of :)