RARE Art Pottery MOAI TIKI God VASE Planter HAWAII Man!

In the next few months I will be listing a HUGE Collection Of RARE & UNIQUE Tiki from my Great Grandfather's ESTATE!!!  He was an avid collector of MUSEUM QUALITY Oceania Artifacts, and Polynesian Cultural Collectibles.  His Enormous accumulation of Art, Sculpture, and Antiquities is quite REMARKABLE - and we will be sharing some of the PRIME & CHOICE pieces, with you, right here on eBay!!!  Up for bid is this STUNNING & RARE Art Pottery IDOL TIKI God VASE / Planter - Half HAWAIIAN Man, Half Tiki!!!  This Beautifully Executed Statue is modeled from local Red Hawaiian Earthenware Clay and has been treated with spare glaze decoration that has been rubbed to show simple highlights.  The ANCIENT, PRIMEVAL Rainforest where this deep "farmed" Red Dirt Clay was taken is truly a SACRED Place.  This earthenware simply RESONATES Age with layers of Natural History!!!  The existing reserves of this RARE clay is quite scarce - on the verge of depletion, making this piece even MORE SPECIAL!!!  This is a stylized depiction of a traditional MOAI made with deep relief tribal decoration.  The remarkable angle of this piece is its depiction of a worldly man or "kane" transitioning into a GOD-Like state of TIKI!!!  It measures a robust 7" Tall x 6.75" Wide x 8" Deep at the top and weighs a hefty 5 Lb., 13 Oz.  My Grandfather acquired this TIKI in the small country town of Nanakuli, on the island of Oahu in Hawaii - It was previously owned by a prominent art dealer and purchased from an estate sale back in 1976!  Now is your chance to own a bit of Vintage Hawaiiana - don't hesitate...BID NOW!!!  REMEMBER - No Reasonable Offer Refused!!!

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Moai are huge human figures carved from rock on Rapa Nui / Easter Island, mostly between 1250 and 1500 CE. Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku the main Moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on Ahu (platforms) which were mostly at the islands perimeter. Almost all have overly large heads three fifths the size of their body. The Moai are the “living faces” (aringa ora) and representations of chiefly, deified ancestors.  Sitting on their Ahus with their backs to the sea, these statues were still gazing across their clan lands when Europeans first visited the island, but most were then cast down during conflict between different clans on the island.  The production and transportation process required significant intellect, use of resources, and creativity, and is considered a remarkable feat of human endeavour.  The tallest moai erected, "Paro", was almost 10 metres (33 ft) high and weighed 75 tonnes (74 Imperial tons, 83 short tons) the heaviest erected was a shorter but squatter moai at Ahu Tongariki which weighed 86 tonnes; while one unfinished sculpture would have been approximately 21 metres (69 ft) tall with a weight of about 270 short tons.  The Moai are monolithic statues, their minimalist style related to forms found throughout Polynesia. Moai are carved in relatively flat planes, the faces bearing proud but enigmatic expressions. The over-large heads (a three to five ratio between the head and the body, a sculptural trait which demonstrates the Polynesian belief in the sanctity of the chiefly head) have heavy brows, elongated noses with a distinctive fish-hook shaped curl of the nostrils. The lips protrude in a thin pout. Like the nose, the ears are elongated, and oblong in form. The jaw lines stand out against the truncated neck. The torsos are heavy, and sometimes the clavicles are subtly outlined in stone. The arms are carved in bas relief and rest against the body in various positions, hands and long slender fingers resting along the crests of the hips, meeting at the hami (loincloth), with the thumbs sometimes pointing towards the navel. Generally, the anatomical details of the backs are not detailed, but sometimes bear a ring and girdle motif on the buttocks and lower back. Except for one kneeling moai, the statues do not have legs.  Though Moai are whole body statues, they are often described simply as "heads". This is partly because of the disproportionate size of most moai heads, and partly because from the invention of photography until the 1950s the only Moai standing on the island were the statues on the slopes of Rano Raraku, many of which are buried to their shoulders. Some of the "heads" at Rano Raraku have been excavated and their bodies seen, and observed to have markings that had been protected from erosion by their burial.