Post #430305 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:53 PM

On 2009-01-23 16:18, Cammo wrote:

So here is a list of things that are NOT Tiki, just to clarify;

Don Ho
Hawaiian Shirts
Luaus
Original Pre-Contact Native Carved Tikis
Don the Beachcomber
Trader Vic
The International Marketplace
The Bishop Museum (those native Tikis again)
Hawaii
Hawaiian Tourism
Hawaiian Carved Tikis
Coco Joe's Mass Produced Tikis
Surfing
Ku Mugs
Bamboo Bars with no Tikis in them
Tommy Bahama Hibiscus/palm tree/surfboard shirts
Hula Girls
Hawaii 5-0

This list is absurd!

Not if you go by what defined the MAINLAND, MID-CENTURY PERIOD of "Tiki Style" as a popular art form for the first time: The Book of Tiki.

You will find many of the above listed items CONSCIOUSLY excluded from the book, (or, as you feel, manipulatively). Others ARE in the book, in their proper historic context, illustrating the terms Polynesian pop, Pre-Tiki and Tiki-style. And you know what: I all makes sense! :D