1. 5 points for bisque 5 points for glaze 10 points total

5. In the Polynesian cultures of the Pacific Ocean a tiki is a name given to large carvings of humanoid forms. These carvings often serve to mark the boundaries of sacred or significant sites.

6. Tiki’s appear in New Zealand, Cook Islands, Tahiti, and in Hawaii.

7. These carved humanistic figures are non realistic human representations, and are distorted proportions of the human body parts.

8. Carvers were capable of producing realistic forms but they deliberately ignored anatomical proportions. The patterns and exaggerations of some anatomical features and reduction of others varies per island, each island developed its own style of Tikis.

9. A problem faced the carvers, how to carve the arms and hands? Two solutions followed, one with the arms flexed and the hands resting on the abdomen or chest and the other with the arms pendent or resting on the hips.

10. The pendent straight arms occur in Tonga and Hawaii and hands resting on the hips in Hawaii. Both flexed and pendent positions were used in Easter Island.

11. The deliberate ignoring of accurate detail is evident in the treatment of the hands which were usually blocked out in mass and the fingers then separated by grooves. The fingers sometimes exceeded five and in Tahiti, though the usual number was five, they were sometimes four or three. In Rarotonga, the well-made fishermen's gods though usually with five fingers, sometimes had four but in the multiple small figures on the staff images, the common number was 3.

12. In these cultures mythology the Tiki is the first human. In some regions they believed that the Tiki himself creates the first human by mixing his blood with clay!

13. Tikis are considered spiritual figures whose, scary mouths and menacing expressions frighten away evil. Their headdress vary and have different meanings according to the shape.

14. Easter Island Sculptures

15. 887 human figures carved from rock on the Polynesian island of Easter Island,between the years 1250 and 1500. Hundreds were transported from an area and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island's perimeter. The largest one is over 33 feet tall.

16. If you lack the courage to start, you have already finished. The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

17. One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

18. Ideas won't work unless YOU do.

19. Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important

20. YOUR ASSIGNMENT: 1. Throw a cylinder on the wheel that is 5 inches minimum height. 2. Use the INCISED surface decoration method to carve out a tiki humanoid form when the cylinder is leather hard. 3. High Fire three toned glaze finish

22. YOUR TIKI MUGS MUST HAVE THE FOLLOWING TO be fired: 1. Undercut Foot 2. Scary styled peanut mouth 3. Stylized Eyes 4. Headdress 5. Three colored H. F. Glaze application 6. 5” Height

23. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want. Lao Tzu

24. The quieter you become, the more you can hear. Baba Ram Dass

25. It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. Muso Kokushi The best vitamin for making friends B1

26. Another word for luck is PERSISTENCE

27. If you believe you achieve

28. If you want your dreams to come true, you mustn't oversleep.

29. “Tiki Culture” refers to a South Seas-inspired pop culture movement in the U.S. This includes Tiki-themed bars, drinks and art. Tiki culture was at its height in the 1950s and '60s, although Tiki culture in the U.S. actually began in the '30s with Don the Beachcomber.

30. Donn Beach (aka Ernest Raymond Beaumont-Gant) was responsible for the movement when he opened “Don the Beachcomber” restaurant in the 30’s. He was inspired from sailing through the South Pacific.

31. Tiki culture was also influenced by the return of American soldiers from WWII. At that time affordability of travel happened for the middle class, particularly newly established air travel to Hawaii. This helped to propel the nation's interest in all things tropical.

32. Kon-Tiki Kon-Tiki is the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian Islands. Heyerdahl and five companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean before smashing into a reef at Raroia in the Taumotu Islands on August 7, 1947

33. Josh Agle: aka SHAG is a contemporary Southern Californian artist who became popular for his tiki art.

34. SHAG