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The tiki figurine, "an anthropomorphic figure portrayed with huge oval eyes, arching brows and open mouth", is typical of the Marquesan arts. [1] Though tikis are most common as stone statues, they are also familiar motifs in wood carving and tattoos in the islands.
A Māori man painting a tattoo on a carved wooden tiki at Whakarewarewa model village, New Zealand, c. 1905 Hawaiian kiʻi at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park Tiki statuette from the Marquesas. In Māori mythology, Tiki is the first man created by either Tūmatauenga or Tāne.
The most valuable hei-tiki are carved from pounamu which is either nephrite or bowenite (Māori: tangiwai). Pounamu is esteemed highly by Māori for its beauty, toughness and great hardness; it is used not only for ornaments such as hei-tiki and ear pendants, but also for carving tools, adzes and weapons.
Tiki is the first human in Māori mythology, and also a wooden image of him. [14]The word "tiki" was used to describe the style of the tropical islands of the South Pacific starting in the late 1930s, a usage that is "unknown to the languages of the Pacific."
Tiki, carvings of the legendary first man among the Māori and other Western Polynesian cultures; Anito, ancestor spirits and deities of the Filipino people, often carved into wooden or stone figures; Taotao Mona, ancestor spirits of the Chamorro people in Micronesia; Chemamull, large funerary statues of the Mapuche of South America
Wood carving is a common art form in the Cook Islands.Sculpture in stone is much rarer although there are some excellent carvings in basalt by Mike Tavioni.The proximity of islands in the southern group helped produce a homogeneous style of carving but which had special developments in each island.