Disney artists, Kevin Kidney and Jody Daily, curated a cool exhibit at the Anaheim Museum back in 1996 called Tiki: Native Drums in the Orange Grove, a survey of Polynesian Pop-style in Orange County California. Here's a virtual tour:

[Link: Tiki: Native Drums in the Orange Grove]

Swanky posted these cheesecake photos from the 1963 issue of Cavalier Magazine, that feature a blonde mainland secretary loosening up and doin' the Naughty Hula with a bunch of native Hawaiian girls. Hey, watch where you put those lovely hula hands, buddy!

[Link: Cavalier 1963 Hauoli Nani Nei] (NSFW: NatGeo nudity)

Finally, leave it to my buddy Vern to find both a map of the Pacific made out of SPAM and an adulterous link between Peanuts creator, Charles Schulz, and Tiki.

[Link: SPAM/MAPS: Oceania]
[Link:Charles Schulz, Peanuts, and the Tonga Room]

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I'm Learning to Share, posted this goofy Capitol Records promotional centerfold for Les Baxter's classic exotica LP, Ritual of the Savage. In it, Les portrays famed African hunter, Serge Drek. Vocalist Dottie O'Brian appears as steel-wool heiress, Griselde Kittle, and singer/actress Gisele MacKenzie portrays the White Goddess.

[Link: Les Baxter 'Le Sacre Du Savage' photo-spread, 1951]

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It's been a while since I've scored any cool junque, so I was quite pleased to find this beautifully carved knife and spoon set at a local antique emporium for only 10 bucks! They're not Polynesian, the artist is Peter Mellick of Ashland, Wisconsin. They actually look more African, or possibly even Native American influenced. Whatever. I think they look damn good down in the Hai'deaway next to my Tiki totem pole.

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