Post #77410 by Johnny Dollar on Mon, Feb 23, 2004 7:49 AM

On 2004-02-20 22:36, tikijackalope wrote:
This is a "stone tiki" an area dealer and I played phone tag over for weeks. I can't complain; I kind of like it and it was a dollar. It makes me wonder if there is a group out ther collecting Inca, Aztec and Maya stuff.

i have found much in the way of jewelry in small human forms, usually gold or gold tone. i got a pair of gold cufflinks a while back that really are ambiguous between tiki and aztek. but my gut is that they're aztek. as we mentioned back in the "pirates of the carribean" thread, there were idols that at first glance looked moai-like (elongation of features, etc.) but were really meso-american. i'm sure it's a pretty collectible field...