Post #499597 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Dec 17, 2009 1:12 PM

Wow, very nice set there, Big T! Please fill us in as to the origin of these artifacts.

With that turban, we are talking Indian/ Borneo Safari, here, Sabu-style...kind of like "The Flame" menu in Tiki Modern, which was also part of that "Tropics" genre...

And no ph. d. neccessary, John-0, some basic knowledge in primitive arts would tell you those pieces on the fabric are classic African art.

But mixing up Papua New Guinea and African art is not uncommon, case in point that paperback cover you posted:

The mask NOT being African (=Voodoo), but a Melanesian Tiki temple classic, from that bible of mid-century Tiki design, the book "Oceanic Art":

(The mask is from the Hamburg Museum, the book being originally German)

Oceanic Arts reprocuced it from that book, and it became a Tiki temple staple, hanging at such power places as the Mai Kai and the Kahiki:

The great thing is that it is still made from the same mold by O.A. today!