Post #764375 by Hurricane Hayward on Sun, May 29, 2016 12:35 PM

Three new Tikis carved by Florida artists Will Anders, Tom Fowner and Jeff Chouinard now greet guests at The Mai-Kai. The installation was completed today ...

Will and Tom installed their Tikis yesterday ...

Jeff's Marquesan-style Tiki went up this morning ...

Will's carving is based on the Hawaiian Lono style ...

Tom's Tangaroa-style Tiki is based on the design of The Mai-Kai's vintage decanter ...
http://www.ooga-mooga.com/cgi-bin/all/search.cgi?terms=mai-kai+decanter&des_id=any&man_id=any&img_id=any&shp_id=any&clr_id=any&details=yes&mode=search_process&x=0&y=0

All three were carved from Cypress trees from Central Florida. Mahalo to The Hukilau's Christie "Tiki Kiliki" White for spearheading this project. You can share the photos on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/atomicgrog/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1092882324111605

I'm guessing that the three Tikis that they replaced are these, before they were moved to the porte-cochère ...

(Does anyone know if these date back to 1956?)

[ Edited by: Hurricane Hayward 2016-05-29 12:47 ]