Limited Edition Pimm’s by Edward Lakeman. Photograph by EatWell
I need this in, on, all around my body now.
d i t t o. how do i get me some of this????????
WHAAAAAATTTT?!?! How? Where?
Finished my tape mural in the guest room. Who wants to stay over for a night or two? (at My Maxi Pad)
The Polynesian craze swept America in the 1950s. With the 1959 publication of James A. Michener’s “Hawaii,” movies and Broadway musicals like “South Pacific” and “The King & I,” Tiki gods and other South Seas decor were soon found in bamboo bars and Trader Vics, a restaurant franchise still found in Chicago, Los Angeles, and other locations.
Marwal Industries, Inc. offered a wide variety of plaster of Paris statuary, among which were several variations of head and shoulder busts of Polynesian/Hawaiian woman/girls and men/boys until the late 1960s.
I got a set of these from one of Alison’s dad’s shops a few years ago. I always wondered what they were supposed to be (other than a forlorn looking brother sister duo staring out from the top of my bookshelf). Now I know, forlorn Polynesian children!