Post #765392 by Club Nouméa on Thu, Jun 23, 2016 5:33 AM

On 2016-06-22 17:05, uncle trav wrote:

On 2016-06-22 16:12, exquisitecorpse wrote:
It has been so very dead in Philly.

I am pretty sure is Maori with Abalone eyes. Marked "17 DG" on the bottom.

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The statue is Maori. A bit rough but cool image of Tekoteko

"Anyone who has ever seen them is thereafter haunted as if by a feverish dream" Karl Woermann

[ Edited by: uncle trav 2016-06-22 17:07 ]

A nice piece but it looks like a US version of a Maori carving via Hawaii to my eyes - that rough-carved "peanut style" finish is very American.

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The earliest known tiki mug: "Ruru and Weku", designed by Harry Hargreaves of Crown Lynn, New Zealand, 1949.

[ Edited by: Club Nouméa 2016-06-23 05:35 ]