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In the Polynesian cultures of the Pacific Ocean a tiki is a name given to large carvings

of humanoid forms. These carvings often

serve to mark the boundaries of sacred or significant sites.

Tiki’s appear in New Zealand, Cook Islands, Tahiti, and in Hawaii.

These carved humanistic

figures are non realistic human representations, and are distorted proportions of

the human body parts.

Carvers were capable of producing realistic forms but they

deliberately ignored anatomical proportions.

The patterns and exaggerations of some anatomical features and reduction of others varies per

island, each island developed its own style of Tikis.

A problem faced the carvers, how to carve the arms and hands? Two

solutions followed, one with the arms flexed and the hands resting on the

abdomen or chest and the other with the arms pendent or resting on the hips.

The pendent straight arms occur in Tonga and Hawaii and hands

resting on the hips in Hawaii. Both flexed and pendent positions were

used in Easter Island.

The deliberate ignoring of accurate detail is evident in the treatment of the hands which were usually blocked out in

mass and the fingers then separated by grooves. The fingers sometimes exceeded five and in Tahiti, though the usual number was five, they were sometimes four or three. In

Rarotonga, the well-made fishermen's gods though usually with five fingers, sometimes had four but in the multiple

small figures on the staff images, the common number was 3.

In these cultures mythology the Tiki is the first human.

In some regions they believed that the Tiki himself creates

the first human by mixing his blood with clay!

Tikis are considered spiritual

figures whose, scary mouths and

menacing expressions

frighten away evil. Their headdress vary and have

different meanings according to the

shape.

                                                         

Easter Island Sculptures

887 human figures carved from rock on the Polynesian island of Easter Island ,between the years 1250 and 1500. Hundreds were transported from an area and set on stone platforms called ahu

around the island's perimeter. The largest one is over 33 feet tall.

If you lack the courage to  start, you have already finished.

The happiness of your  life depends on the quality of your  thoughts.

One thing you can't  recycle is wasted time.

Ideas won't work  unless

YOU do.

Of all the things you

 wear, your

expression is the most

 important

YOUR ASSIGNMENT:1. Throw a cylinder on the wheel that is

5 inches minimum height. 2. Use the INCISED surface

decoration method to carve out a tiki humanoid form when the cylinder is

leather hard.3. High Fire three toned glaze finish

YOUR TIKI MUGS MUST HAVE THE FOLLOWING TO be fired:1. Undercut Foot2. Scary styled peanut mouth

3. Stylized Eyes4. Headdress5. Three colored H. F. Glaze application6. 5” Height

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.

Lao Tzu

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.Baba Ram Dass

It is better to practice a little

than talk a lot.Muso Kokushi

The best vitamin for  making friends

B1

Another word for luck is PERSISTENCE

If you believe you achieve

If you want your  dreams to come true, you mustn't oversleep.  

“Tiki Culture” refers to a South Seas-inspired pop culture

movement in the U.S. This includes Tiki-themed bars, drinks

and art. Tiki culture was at its height in the 1950s and '60s,

although Tiki culture in the U.S. actually began in the '30s with

Don the Beachcomber.

Donn Beach (aka Ernest Raymond

Beaumont-Gant) was responsible for the

movement when he opened

“Don the Beachcomber”

restaurant in the 30’s.He was inspired from

sailing through the South Pacific.

Tiki culture was also influenced by the return of American soldiers from WWII.

At that time affordability of travel happened for the middle class, particularly newly established air travel to Hawaii. This helped to propel the nation's interest in all things tropical.

Kon-TikiKon-Tiki is the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific

Ocean from South America to the Polynesian Islands. Heyerdahl and five

companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean before

smashing into a reef at Raroia in the Taumotu

Islands on August 7, 1947

Josh Agle: aka SHAG

is a contemporary

Southern Californian artist

who became popular for his

tiki art.

SHAG