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What is this? (tiki skull?)
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Tikitronic
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04/02/2003
On page 185 of the Book of Tiki, top left and partially hidden, is a carving that looks like an almost disneyfied tiki interperetation of a skull. I ran across what looks like the same thing in the 'zombie isle' title banner of this monster mask site: Does anyone know what it is/where it came from? |
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Traitor Vic
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04/03/2003
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm... Never seen anything else like it in a Tiki Related Capacity. Looks, though, as if it's carved from a Coconut Shell, don't it? |
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bigbrotiki
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04/04/2003
Good eye there, this Zombie Isle logo is definetely taken from the BOT, because I am the happy owner of the original, which is a one of a kind carving by Leroy Schmaltz, and to me it is of historic provenance, because I obtained it the very first time I discovered Oceanic Arts, in 1989. |
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Tikitronic
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04/05/2003
Ah - well - that would narrow it down a bit, being one of a kind and all:) Is it thematically tied to any culture or carving style, or just a stand alone OA art piece? |
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bigbrotiki
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04/05/2003
The eyes and the coloring make it more New Guinea than Polynesian, but I never traced it back to a specific object. |
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