Help Identify, What Is This, Is This A? Thread - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sun, Jan 13, 2019 12:42 PM Though the colors point towards Chinese "Orchids of Hawai" Tiki, I'd say this guy is homemade. The head piece reminds me of the Goof from Christian's Hut/ the Bali Hai. I have not been able to find any historic precedent to this type of "native crown" among the various Polynesian headdress types... Hobby Tiki is an under-reported genre because one tends to concentrate on the good carvers like Guanko, West and OA, and there's often something wrong or dorky with homemade Tiki. Yet it is important proof of how Americans were inspired by Tiki art. Here is another cool piece that looks like a home project to me: These kind carvings are like the thrift store art of Tiki :)

Though the colors point towards Chinese "Orchids of Hawai" Tiki, I'd say this guy is homemade. The head piece reminds me of the Goof from Christian's Hut/ the Bali Hai.

I have not been able to find any historic precedent to this type of "native crown" among the various Polynesian headdress types...

Hobby Tiki is an under-reported genre because one tends to concentrate on the good carvers like Guanko, West and OA, and there's often something wrong or dorky with homemade Tiki. Yet it is important proof of how Americans were inspired by Tiki art.

Here is another cool piece that looks like a home project to me:

These kind carvings are like the thrift store art of Tiki :)

Post #792427 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Jan 13, 2019 12:42 PM