Post #773179 by AceExplorer on Mon, Feb 20, 2017 12:44 PM

On 2017-02-20 12:34, Berryb wrote:
OK interesting. The Skull thing comes from ancient Polynesian culture; trophies or even ancestor worship. (I know in New Guinea they wore enemy bone necklaces and nose and ear ornaments and grandpa's bones were incorporated into the walls of the house.) Then as Tiki becomes more pop culture skulls become part of the imagery, because real skulls, sadly, are more difficult to come by. I'll help address the deficit of real skulls; soon as I'm done with mine one of you can have it.
Bruce

Bruce, that's a very 'anthropological' or 'historical' summarization for the sources of the skull imagery. But it doesn't seem to cozy up to the mid-century Polynesian-pop thing we call "tiki."

Tiki was much less sterile and more haphazard, family-friendly, and less realistic in connecting skulls and other imagery with restaurants and cocktails and such. I would suggest finding and settling on a much less technical and much more whimsical pop-culture approach to any sort of summary of how this association happened.

Cheers!

I will have a drink from one of my skull mugs tonight.