Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Tihati?

Shouldn't that be Tahiti? I looked up Tihati and seeing that most of the results lead to a company called Tihati Productions, I'm thinking maybe this was a typo. Hmm...

The life of the party! :)

3 comments:

  1. I'm dressing up for Halloween as that guy. (That is a guy, right?)

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  2. That guy is in Maori costume. This looks like some 1970's dinner theatre thing, but the spear is called a taiaha, the tattoo is a moko and the tongue poking is called a poukana (Which is an intimidation technique). Its part of a ceremony called a wero, used at meetings and feasts. The warrior will adopt the pose, whilst laying down a fern as a gauntlet. Pick it up and its peace, his demeanor changes, however in the past if you did not, it was a declaration of war. I know this as its my native people, the Maori of New Zealand.

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