New Zealand Tiki Salt and Pepper - Collecting Tiki

T Image Missing: https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/026b9b996081916785eacfdd930f6047?d=blank&s=192&fit=fill TIKIMA Member Whitman MA Joined: Aug 12, 2011 Posts: 9	T Image Missing: https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/026b9b996081916785eacfdd930f6047?d=blank&s=192&fit=fill TIKIMA Posted posted on 05/10/2012 Found these at a thrift shop, are in mint condition. they are 6.5" tall. Label reads: hand carved Meadswood New Zealand. Anymore info would be helpful. Thanks and happy tiki hunting! Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/74887/4fabd570.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=7ffe51014b43dc1029bf4a82c099468d Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/74887/4fabd586.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=629c6448a8f0bffe326b3ae6b3160deb Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/74887/4fabd598.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=48855aafb8ab9a5e0464751a9aa16e54
B Image Missing: https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e01c7e12080283066ced001977e37f65?d=blank&s=192&fit=fill bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B Image Missing: https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e01c7e12080283066ced001977e37f65?d=blank&s=192&fit=fill bigbrotiki Posted posted on 05/10/2012 These belong to the genre of tourist art, also called airport art, and, I regret to inform you, are not exactly the finest example of Maori craftsmanship.
CN Image Missing: https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/27e81d4d7297439985d773f9ec97ca68?d=blank&s=192&fit=fill Club Nouméa Member Wanganui Joined: May 03, 2010 Posts: 459	CN Image Missing: https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/27e81d4d7297439985d773f9ec97ca68?d=blank&s=192&fit=fill Club Nouméa Posted posted on 05/11/2012 Meadswood was a company around in the 1960s/1970s and they made touristy tiki carving stuff. If you type in "Meadswood" and "Maori" in Google Images you will see some of their other designs.

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TIKIMA Posted posted on 05/10/2012

Found these at a thrift shop, are in mint condition. they are 6.5" tall. Label reads: hand carved Meadswood New Zealand. Anymore info would be helpful.

Thanks and happy tiki hunting!

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bigbrotiki Posted posted on 05/10/2012

These belong to the genre of tourist art, also called airport art, and, I regret to inform you, are not exactly the finest example of Maori craftsmanship.

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Club Nouméa Posted posted on 05/11/2012

Meadswood was a company around in the 1960s/1970s and they made touristy tiki carving stuff. If you type in "Meadswood" and "Maori" in Google Images you will see some of their other designs.