A handdrawn map of the world exposes huge error, just by changing the point of view that tiny bit.
When the sun sets in the west it rises in the east. (Polynesian proverb)
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The exhibition I wrote about in the early days of this blog is now partially online. I like that!
visit Power & Taboo: Sacred Objects from the Pacific
I Belli di Waikiki
Don Tiki at Wassermusik 08
Don Tiki
Don Tiki
I Belli di Waikiki must be one of the busiest acts in europe in the Hula-Rock’n’Roll field, o.k. there aren’t that many, but I heard they play a lot outside their native Italy. I always enjoy the good time music and fun presentation. It’s been a smart move to pick-up the fifties connection of Polynesia and Rock’n’Roll, as so many aging Rockabillys join the Tiki afficionados. I must say that I really dig their style and especially the sound of the steel guitar and the Dearmond/Bigsby Tele – he practically nails my ideal guitar sound with it! They had given some accomplished pin-striper a go on their ukulele and guitar, looks very neat.
Don Tiki – probably the best show this side of Esquivel in Vegas! Unfortunately my phone camera couldn’t capture the fury of the dancers, the drama of the performers or the wealth of customes and make up. It was the biggest crowd at Wassermusik so far – and I like to think they witnessed something to tell their grandchildren about.
July 25 – 26, 2008
Enchanted Tiki Luau Blow-Out
An Egyptian Theatre exclusive!After the success of our Tiki events the past three summers, we’re back again with more exotic ephemera: more fun feature films, diverting oddball shorts, vendors, food, music and more! We’ll be showing old-school island adventure pics Fair Wind to Java, Aloma of The South Seas and Her Jungle Love (all in gorgeously saturated color) will screen along with artist Kevin Kidney’s collection of rare, island-themed TV surprises. Join us in the Egyptian’s Courtyard for a Royal Southern California-style Luau with exotic musical entertainment from King Kukelele and his Friki Tikis and the Polynesian Paradise Dancers. There will also be Tiki vendors and other special surprises in the courtyard on Saturday from 1:00 PM until we shut it down.
read more at Tiki_Weekend_ET
Scholastic scientists ignore Thor Heyerdahl’s publications to the point of constant embarassment. For example the sewn plank canoe mentioned in this article is found along the way from the Pacific Northwest to Hawaii, Micronesia, Melanesia and New Zealand. These places surround a natural ocean route, described by Heyerdahl in the 1950s. Many ethnical and cultural evidences can be found of contact with pacific indians and polynesian people. And I would expect excactly that from people populating almost every significant island in the polynesian triangle. Why should they stop there? The Americas are hard to miss once you enter the Japan current. Remember Johnny Depp drifting out in a canoe at the end of Dead Man? If redwood lumber was taken to Hawaii by stream, why not canoes of coastal settlers? Maybe the occasional dead Northwestern indian’s canoe landed in Hawai’i front tip first – they would have regarded him a god! Hawaiki!
Did ancient Polynesians visit California? Maybe so. Scholars revive idea using linguistic ties, Indian headdress Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer Monday, June 20, 2005 Scientists are taking a new look at an old and controversial idea: that ancient Polynesians sailed to Southern California a millennium before Christopher Columbus landed on the East Coast.Key new evidence comes from two directions. The first involves revised carbon-dating of an ancient ceremonial headdress used by Southern California’s Chumash Indians. The second involves research by two California scientists who suggest that a Chumash word for ‘sewn-plank canoe’ is derived from a Polynesian word for the wood used to construct the same boat.
An outsider’s view of the recent Hukilau at the Mai-Kai in Florida available online here.
Henford Lemoore posted his list of drinks mentioned in the article at Tiki Central:
- Shark bite
- Mara amu
- Planters punch
- Oh so deadly
- Cobra’s kiss
- Deep sea diver
- Rum julep
- Mutiny
- K o cooler
- Derby daiquiri
- Rum barrel
- Jet Pilot
- Black magic
- Mai Tai
- Bora bora
- Hukilau
- 151 swizzle
- Martinique Milk Punch
- Floritia daiquiri
- Mai kai swizzle
- Mai Kai special
- Malayan Mist
- Somoan Grog
- S.o.s.
- Russian roulette
- Hidden pearls
- Yeomans Grog
- Banana daiquiri
- Tahitian breeze
- Zulu #1
Detailed info from HKW here.
Some of these look good to me, of course they’re impracticle as surfboards, more like ritual paddles, spears and guaras.
*HUA Sculptured Surfboards
WHAT ARE THEY?
HUA (Polynesian Soul) SCULPTURES are the work of Aaron Kereopa – a young Maori surfer and artist.
Aaron designs and then carves these characters into stripped back, old – dis-used surfboards. Each of them represents a part of a Maori warrior tree.
Aaron’s works are now only available by commission.
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