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nuimaleko
Tiki Centralite
Joined: May 03, 2005
Posts: 70
From: Sacramento CA
|  Posted: 2005-07-25 02:11 am Permalink
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/calthai2003/detail?.dir=a502&.dnm=9678.jpg&.src=ph
I have a pair of them. They are from the Phillipines. Whadaya think?
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johntiki
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Joined: Mar 31, 2002
Posts: 1525
From: MD
| Posted: 2005-07-25 06:22 am Permalink
They look pretty neat but I wouldn't consider them tiki per say. That doesn't mean they wouldn't look cool hanging in a tiki bar!
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nuimaleko
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Joined: May 03, 2005
Posts: 70
From: Sacramento CA
| Posted: 2005-07-25 2:35 pm Permalink
A hand carved, wooden, tribal, spiritual image from an island in the Pacific and it is not "Tiki" per se. Very interesting. Oh well, thanks for your response.
I actually bought them in Oregon ten years ago and thought they are PNW Indian. Then I found a tiny word carved on the back of one that I read as Panama, for five years until a friend with shaper eyes, said "that is not Panama, that word is Philippines." I checked it with a magnifying glass and he was right.
Oh, by the way isn't everything that goes into a Tiki Bar "Tiki"
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johntiki
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Joined: Mar 31, 2002
Posts: 1525
From: MD
| Posted: 2005-07-25 8:39 pm Permalink
Would this be considered tiki? If we use the guidelines of being 'hand carved, wooden, tribal, spiritual image[s] from an island in the Pacific' could we consider this Philippine carved crucifix a tiki?
What Sven has stated so simply in the past was, “If it says ‘tiki’ on it, there should be tiki in it.” So no, not everything that goes into a tiki bar miraculously undergoes a sudden transformation to become "tiki."
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hiltiki
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From: Reseda, calif.
| Posted: 2005-07-25 9:39 pm Permalink
No it is not tiki. It doesn't look tiki, it looks more Asian (Oriental) if anything.
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atomictonytiki
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Joined: May 14, 2002
Posts: 1267
From: Bangkok
| Posted: 2005-07-26 04:47 am Permalink
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On 2005-07-25 20:39, johntiki wrote:
could we consider this Philippine carved crucifix a tiki?
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Well we TC's would not but Marquesans would refer to it as a "Catholic tiki".
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