Fenton Estate carvings info?

A few years back, I had purchased two Tiki carvings from two different people. Both had described the carvings as being from a large collection of the Fenton Estate in Arizona, if I'm remembering right. Here's a pic of one of them:

Does anyone have any information about the Fenton Estate? How extensive was this collection? Over what period of time were the Tikis acquired? Do any other TC members have some of these Tikis?

Any help will be much appreciated!
Thanks!
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Sorry, never heard about the Fenton Estate, but that's one nice Tiki. It looks like a Hawaiian tourist carving to me, but from a time when there was some effort put into airport art. And it looks like a not the run-of-the-mill carving, but a single sort of gallery piece, that had a more than 5.- bucks price tag on it even back then.

So maybe the Fentons were Polynesiacs that collected Tikis as fine art....

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2003-02-05 23:59 ]

I'm with BigBro on this one, your carving appears to be a faithful reproduction of the "old" hawaiian style carvings. Very Very nice piece!

Here's a shot of one in the museums, and there's a lot of similarity between yours and this one...