Tiki Finds - Collecting Tiki

TW Trader Woody Member Tiki Manor, Forest of Bowland,UK Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 2301	TW Trader Woody Posted posted on Fri, May 28, 2004 11:23 AM On 2004-05-25 11:35, tikifish wrote: I love that the Tiki Gardens 'Tikis' are actually those Haida Totem Pole thingys we were talking about a while back as being 'not tiki'. Well, looks like the Tiki Garden peeps don't care too much, heheh! Yeah, the Butlins Beachcomber bars in the UK were full of carvings that were influenced by Vancouver Island rather than the Polynesian Islands! But then again, they are miles apart geographically, but stunningly closely related ethnographically. Trader Woody

On 2004-05-25 11:35, tikifish wrote:
I love that the Tiki Gardens 'Tikis' are actually those Haida Totem Pole thingys we were talking about a while back as being 'not tiki'. Well, looks like the Tiki Garden peeps don't care too much, heheh!

Yeah, the Butlins Beachcomber bars in the UK were full of carvings that were influenced by Vancouver Island rather than the Polynesian Islands! But then again, they are miles apart geographically, but stunningly closely related ethnographically.

Trader Woody

Post #93281 by Trader Woody on Fri, May 28, 2004 11:23 AM