Post #773167 by AceExplorer on Mon, Feb 20, 2017 9:37 AM

Haka, that's deep, amazing that island cultures really did that to such an extent. I've always thought that things like shrunken heads and stuff were borrowed concepts from other parts of the globe and just tacked on to the tiki phenomenon.

So in mid-century tiki, we had the Zombie cocktail, skull mugs, references to cannibalism, and more stuff like it. Still it seems like it all stayed at a superficial level, fun escapism and interest in "things exotic" at the core of tiki.