Post #805623 by TIKIGIKI on Fri, Sep 16, 2022 8:18 PM

So what is your most interesting item that you have in your Tiki Bar? The one that perhaps causes the most discussion or the most eye-catching? Maybe you have something unique? Or just something you found that always causes people to ask about?

I'll start this off by showing something that I have that always causes a lot of interest.

This is a wooden carved bowl/receptacle from the Papua New Guinea "crocodile people", (The Chambri tribe) who ritually scarify their bodies to imitate their totemic animal.

It's actually an item used in their group circumcision rituals held for boys attaining puberty. It was used to hold the collected foreskins. The crocodile forms both the handles, whilst the bowl shows a post-operative figure. ( I am still in negotiations for the associated knife.) Interesting?

Showed you mine, ...now show me yours!

[ Edited by TIKIGIKI on 2022-09-16 20:19:16 ]