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Bargoyle
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 18, 2004
Posts: 1025
From: Tolland, CT
|  Posted: 2006-02-23 6:06 pm Permalink
Got a package today from friends of our in New Hampshire. While going thru an inheritance they got, they spotted these and immediately removed them from the Good Will pile and sent em to me, knowing I'd give them a loving home.
As far as they know, they were bought in New Zealand in the early 70's.
Beautiful Maori...nickle there to show size
And this guy weighs a ton!!!
So, thats my latest score. And just in time for my birthday!! Happy tiki to me!
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pappythesailor
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 07, 2005
Posts: 1563
From: Mass.
| Posted: 2006-02-23 7:19 pm Permalink
Crack 'em open and see what's inside!
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Bargoyle
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 18, 2004
Posts: 1025
From: Tolland, CT
| Posted: 2006-02-23 7:22 pm Permalink
I' afraid of what I might find! Those damn boots are freaking me out enough. These might have the feet!
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Tikisgrl
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 03, 2005
Posts: 861
From: Lowell, Mass
| Posted: 2006-02-23 7:23 pm Permalink
Great "Finds" the Maori is super!!! No more cracking things open, my heart can't stand the excitement!!! I'm still laughing out loud and annoying the neighbors!!
Tikisgrl
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Tikiwahine
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 09, 2003
Posts: 3288
From: Ontario, Canada
| Posted: 2006-02-24 10:10 am Permalink
Love the maori one! The other one looks really heavy! Tiki room doorstop? Or napkin paperweight on the bar?
I haven't seen a full bodied maori one like that before.
It would look awesome mounted on some type of fabric, framed up with a monkeyman frame!
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Suffering Bastard of Stumptown
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 09, 2005
Posts: 648
From: PDX
| Posted: 2006-02-24 10:17 am Permalink
I hate to be a party pooper, but the marble one is really Aztec (or some other Central American culture).
The Maori one is really cool though! Don't bust it open!
--SBiM
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Bargoyle
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 18, 2004
Posts: 1025
From: Tolland, CT
| Posted: 2006-02-24 12:36 pm Permalink
Yeah, I thought the marble one looked Aztec or Incan. But what the heck, we dont discriminate in my bar. If the gods of Bali, Rapa Nui, Hawaii, The Marquesas, etc, etc can all get along, whats one more? Or do think all these Island gods will pick on the Mainlander?
I better seperate them just in case! heh heh
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Tikiwahine
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 09, 2003
Posts: 3288
From: Ontario, Canada
| Posted: 2006-02-24 12:42 pm Permalink
You could call him Chief Itchy Bum and place him in the center of a pond or water feature.
That would be his punishment for not being part of the island ohana - he must become an island.
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Bargoyle
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 18, 2004
Posts: 1025
From: Tolland, CT
| Posted: 2006-02-24 12:55 pm Permalink
Lol, I love it. Now I've got even MORE of an excuse to add a fountain to the bar!!!
"Chief Itchy Bum" heh heh.... My wahine has actually called me that.
And once, when i had a stomache flu, she called me "Sir Poops-a-lot"...but perhaps I'm sharing a bit too much.
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