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Help Identify, What Is This, Is This A? Thread |
Dagg Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 26, 2012 Posts: 332 From: Van Isle BC CA
| Posted: 2013-03-18 12:15 pm  Permalink
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On 2013-02-23 12:13, Dagg wrote:
African?
about 18" tall and pretty light.
Mahalo for any help
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so no Idea's on this one?
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Atomic Tiki Punk Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 19, 2009 Posts: 7048 From: Costa Misery
| Posted: 2013-03-18 1:05 pm  Permalink
All I can say is it is not Tiki
it does have the attributes of other "Pygmy" carvings I have seen.
The origins are Africa & Asia.
 
 
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Dagg Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 26, 2012 Posts: 332 From: Van Isle BC CA
| Posted: 2013-03-18 1:13 pm  Permalink
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On 2013-03-18 13:05, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
All I can say is it is not Tiki
it does have the attributes of other "Pygmy" carvings I have seen.
The origins are Africa & Asia.
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Thank you for the reply
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Alii Tiki Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 24, 2008 Posts: 156 From: Kona, Hawaii & Palm Springs, California
| Posted: 2013-04-10 7:51 pm  Permalink
I just picked this up from eBay, the seller said his Mother picked it up over 40 years ago in New Guinea but had no other information to share.
Anyone have a clue as to the possible origins of this piece?
Asides from the obvious information that I've already stated here of course.
 
 
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Heath Grand Member (first year)
Joined: Dec 31, 2005 Posts: 684 From: Suburban San Diego (The Drawer)
| Posted: 2013-04-26 4:53 pm  Permalink
So I'm guessing there's still no explanation on the use of these?
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On 2012-11-05 23:21, Dagg wrote:
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On 2008-10-24 19:57, Tiki Shaker wrote:
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Does anyone know what that thing in the middle is????
The giant ladle thing...
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On 2011-12-12 10:36, Pittsburgh pauly wrote:
Large Kava ladle? Carving matches the standard oversize fork and spoon sets, paint by numbers, framed piece, TV LV wahine mug, moai mug, bamboo Hawaii trays, S&P sets, cannibal highball and shot, Hawaii figures on a boat.
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On 2007-07-18 19:49, Psycho Tiki D wrote:
Anyone know anything about these?
PTD
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bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11594 From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2013-04-27 12:29 am  Permalink
Philippine tourist carvings with no base in Polynesian culture, but based on Philippine tradition:
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20065/lot/244/
 
 
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Atomic Tiki Punk Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 19, 2009 Posts: 7048 From: Costa Misery
| Posted: 2013-04-27 12:39 am  Permalink
 
 
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tikicoma Grand Member (7 years)
Joined: Jan 16, 2010 Posts: 744 From: wakinekona
| Posted: 2013-04-27 02:27 am  Permalink
I've always thought that the "giant ladle thing" was made in the Philippines. I've seen a few around here and the local Air Force base has a lot of flights that go through the Philippines making it likely that it's so. But, to confuse things, I remembered this...
I thought the Fiji doll may have been the one in his right hand but they did make it plural, it wouldn't be the first mistake I've seen in a newspaper though.
aloha, tikicoma
 
 
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bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11594 From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2013-04-28 12:40 am  Permalink
Well, he might have bought that ladle on Fiji - but that don't mean it was CARVED there
As exemplified by the Philippine Handicraft store at the Seattle Worlds Fair...
(not to be mixed up with the Philippine Pavilion at the Fair)
...by the 60s, Philippine Handicraft Industries had the tourist souvenir market in the Pacific islands supplied with all kinds of native art, carved in Ku or Moai or other forms, depending on the island.
The most ubiquitous were the giant fork and spoon carvings, and on the left we can glimpse those ladles, too.
In Tikidom, the "female" Ku carving (also known as "Surfing God") was used often, for example at The Polynesia in Seattle, or at Trader Vic's in S.F.
It even became a mug at the Japanese Tiki Tiki restaurants
And then there were those head hunter statues:
 
 
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Hale Tiki Tiki Socialite
Joined: Oct 19, 2004 Posts: 1799 From: Pittsburgh
| Posted: 2013-04-30 06:56 am  Permalink
I've seen the woman's head on that ladle in thrift stores as a mug. It definitely had a "Made in the Philippines" sticker on it.
 
 
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thefuzz Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 14, 2007 Posts: 196 From: Mukilteo, WA
| Posted: 2013-05-15 8:54 pm  Permalink
I can't place this. What is it?

 
 
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Atomic Tiki Punk Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 19, 2009 Posts: 7048 From: Costa Misery
| Posted: 2013-05-15 9:14 pm  Permalink
Fertility God, looks African.
 
 
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SandraDee Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 11, 2011 Posts: 929 | Posted: 2013-05-15 10:26 pm  Permalink
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On 2013-05-15 20:54, thefuzz wrote:
I can't place this. What is it?
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Ya know I may be coming off as an annoying know-it-all but that looks African. You know..like a fertility god. Not sure though..I talk a lot and think I know everything so I could be off this. But then again...yeah an African fertility God sounds about right. And I think I'm always right.
[ This Message was edited by: SandraDee 2013-05-15 22:28 ]
 
 
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thefuzz Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 14, 2007 Posts: 196 From: Mukilteo, WA
| Posted: 2013-05-15 11:30 pm  Permalink
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On 2013-05-15 22:26, SandraDee wrote:
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On 2013-05-15 20:54, thefuzz wrote:
I can't place this. What is it?
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Ya know I may be coming off as an annoying know-it-all but that looks African. You know..like a fertility god. Not sure though..I talk a lot and think I know everything so I could be off this. But then again...yeah an African fertility God sounds about right. And I think I'm always right.
[ This Message was edited by: SandraDee 2013-05-15 22:28 ]
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I was thinking the same thing... I think you are right too.
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Atomic Tiki Punk Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 19, 2009 Posts: 7048 From: Costa Misery
| Posted: 2013-05-16 01:01 am  Permalink
This is what you get when you try to help people?
 
 
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