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The Jungle-style Thread - Pop Culture Iconography of the Dark Continent |
bigbrotiki
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From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
|  Posted: 2010-01-16 09:46 am Permalink
How could we forget!-- the classic Trader Vic's COFFEE DIABLO mug...
...which I was reminded of when finding this portrait of African American artist James Lesesne Wells from around 1930:
(one of his prints):
....which I found in the book mentioned by Vern in this thread:
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=35146&forum=1&5
The cup he is holding was on exhibit, too:
While not an exact replica, the Trader Vic mug certainly must have been inspired by it, or a cup like it:
A prime example of African to Polynesian pop cross-over!
And now that we are back to African art, I want to mention one of my favorite tribal art styles, which I was turned onto by my friend, Tiki artist Moritz R.:
The carvers of the MAKONDE create the wildest surrealist / modernist art pieces of any African culture group...
...for some reason German collectors are really into that stuff, maybe because it is so Hyronimus Bosch-like. Here is one guy's collection, amazing works:
http://www.tanzanian-art.de/Makonde/Collection_Thomas/index.html
...and another:
http://www.tanzanian-art.de/Makonde/Collection_Sebastian_Hansen/index.html
Wacky, mind-blowing stuff!
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bigbrotiki
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From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2010-01-16 10:06 am Permalink
AND last not least, to illustrate in what masses African art was produced for the tourist/ collector market, here's a place which also should be in this thread, Harry's Harbor Bazaar in the port of Hamburg, Germany:
More here:
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=23491&forum=2
...and here:
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=33736&forum=16&vpost=480146
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little lost tiki
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| Posted: 2010-01-16 12:31 pm Permalink
WOW!!!
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lucas vigor
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| Posted: 2010-01-16 1:45 pm Permalink
That's absolutely killer! I own about 5 masks at this point...I think I might spend a lot of money in a shop like that!
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bigbrotiki
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From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2010-01-16 6:14 pm Permalink
I was thinkin' that Lil' Lost Tiki would probably really like that Makonde stuff! 
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martian-tiki
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Posts: 379 | Posted: 2010-01-16 6:21 pm Permalink
Spotted this clicking links on TC user zeta's site
http://arizaleta.blogspot.com/
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bigbrotiki
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From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2010-01-16 6:26 pm Permalink
Ha, now John-O has his 70s Afro connection!
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Mister Naufrago
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From: Spain
| Posted: 2010-01-17 03:42 am Permalink
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On 2010-01-16 18:26, bigbrotiki wrote:
Ha, now John-O has his 70s Afro connection!
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Don´t let that hairstyle deceive you Bigbro.
Rarotonga is a Polynesian princess.
She wore that that hairdo long before Cleopatra Jones and other soul sisters.
Sorry John-O...
We too have forgotten another great Spanish mug. It even had an American cousin.
And I suppose we could too consider monkey mugs as jungle style.
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professortiki
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From: Berlin, Germany
| Posted: 2010-01-17 12:31 pm Permalink
The photos for this cover of my band "Der Plan" were taken in 1988 in the original Harry's Hafenbazar, when it was still in the Bernhard-Nocht-Strasse. The album came out in 1989. The English translation of the title is "The Whip Of Life" 
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professortiki
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| Posted: 2010-01-18 01:04 am Permalink
Marais & Miranda were home-based in Hollywood, CA. Joseph Marais had lived in Capetown for a while. His field studies of original African music resulted in a unique adaption with a mix of English and African lyrics that he sang in duet with Miranda. Best represented on their album Go Native, that was recorded at the BBC studios in London.
It's a good year to dig out these unusual Exotica for the soccer world cup 2010 hosted by South Africa.
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Zeta
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From: Atlantis/Basque Country/Spain/Mexico
| Posted: 2010-01-18 09:59 am Permalink
Hey! martian-tiki! I might have to sue you for stealing pictures from my long time abandoned blog! So expect a visit from my legion of lawyers! 
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Zeta
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| Posted: 2010-01-18 10:01 am Permalink
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On 2010-01-17 12:31, professortiki wrote:
The photos for this cover of my band "Der Plan" were taken in 1988 in the original Harry's Hafenbazar, when it was still in the Bernhard-Nocht-Strasse. The album came out in 1989. The English translation of the title is "The Whip Of Life"
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Uber cool! I want a copy of that record!
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Zeta
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| Posted: 2010-01-19 10:57 am Permalink
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On 2010-01-17 03:42, Mister Naufrago wrote:
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On 2010-01-16 18:26, bigbrotiki wrote:
Ha, now John-O has his 70s Afro connection!
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Don´t let that hairstyle deceive you Bigbro.
Rarotonga is a Polynesian princess.
She wore that that hairdo long before Cleopatra Jones and other soul sisters.
Sorry John-O...
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I think you are both wrong. Or right! I think it is both.
Is it a very good documentation for character design from the artist?
Is it just a coincidence?
synchronicity?
Life imitating art?
Or maybe the artist was in love with the legendary Mexican exotic dancer "Tongolele"?
On thing is for sure, this disambiguation/theory deserve another forum.:
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=35225&forum=1
Further research on "Rarotonga" the Mexican comic book will be posted here:
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=35226&forum=1
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Limbo Lizard
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From: Aboard the 'Leaky Tiki', Dallas
| Posted: 2010-01-20 4:03 pm Permalink
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bigbrotiki
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From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2010-01-20 7:18 pm Permalink
That is tooo funny! (especially with your tag line!) Is that a South African tourist record?
You know, the witch doctor and the natives don't really look like this any more nowadays, they rather look like THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcGKak2qye8&feature=related
Equally or more bewitching, though... 
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