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A aquarj Tiki Socialite SF bay area, CA Joined: Apr 02, 2002 Posts: 1125	A aquarj Posted posted on Fri, Sep 20, 2013 2:16 PM On 2002-10-28 15:52, bigbrotiki wrote: Sabu, that American President Lines menu cover is awesome, I am going to use it for the Witco book. If I could borrow yours please, my friend De Soto Brown would not have to send his all the way from Hawaii. It is a rendering of one of the few surviving FEATHER images from Cook's 3rd voyage, made out of rare and sacred red bird feathers, representing Ku, god of war. FWIW since PTD resurrected this, that long-ago discussion above was about this image from an American President Lines menu illustrated by Don Clever: You can also see it discussed in this 2008 thread which shows various Hawaiian Village artifacts reusing the same image. And you can even see the page in Tiki Modern where Sven ended up using the Hawaiian Village menu version of that image. -Randy

On 2002-10-28 15:52, bigbrotiki wrote:
Sabu, that American President Lines menu cover is awesome, I am going to use it for the Witco book. If I could borrow yours please, my friend De Soto Brown would not have to send his all the way from Hawaii.

It is a rendering of one of the few surviving FEATHER images from Cook's 3rd voyage, made out of rare and sacred red bird feathers, representing Ku, god of war.

FWIW since PTD resurrected this, that long-ago discussion above was about this image from an American President Lines menu illustrated by Don Clever:

You can also see it discussed in this 2008 thread which shows various Hawaiian Village artifacts reusing the same image. And you can even see the page in Tiki Modern where Sven ended up using the Hawaiian Village menu version of that image.

-Randy

Post #694137 by aquarj on Fri, Sep 20, 2013 2:16 PM