Post #762882 by Club Nouméa on Sun, Apr 24, 2016 6:26 PM

Hello Komohana,

That's an oddly loaded series of questions. If you look back at the thread in question, you will see that I was not the one who discovered the Crown Lynn mug, so it is not really a case of me setting any "agenda". Regarding your straw-man assumptions about my frame of reference, I would never be so presumptuous as to assume that I could "convince everyone" of anything....

If there is a thread running through some of my posts, it is only to the extent of indicating that tikis were a part of popular culture in New Zealand decades before they were in the United States; this is an aspect of tiki culture which has in the past been overlooked. If there is anything to "gain" from this, it is merely sharing knowledge which had previously been ignored.

It is also interesting to note that in spite of the fact they seem to originate from New Zealand, tiki mugs died a death here (as shown by this odd Ku mug I found), while they took off in the United States in the 50s and 60s. There's a lot that is unknown about the history of tiki mugs, and some surprisingly fundamental questions which still remain unanswered.

Toto, j'ai l'impression que nous ne sommes plus au Kansas !

[ Edited by: Club Nouméa 2016-04-24 20:59 ]

[ Edited by: Club Nouméa 2016-04-24 21:02 ]