Posted by shaun
on 10/18/2009, 8:34 am, in reply to "Re: That's pretty cool -- reminds me of my Dad --"
Yes--very much like a cargo cult kinda thing. Everything depicted in this "bark-relief" artwork [it was a good size, say 2.5' tall x 4' wide] is indigenous, except for the Helicopter itself - primitively rendered by cut-out pieces of appropriately-colored bark - with indian figures surrounding it as if it were a minor deity. These tribes living in the Mosquitia deep inside Honduras's borders are said to have seldom (sometimes never) interfaced with the outside, modern world. Lord knows what they thought of my Dad and his helicopter. This piece of artwork was made around 1984. It still hangs in the main office of POLCO [Paul Oliver Lawton & Co.], at my Dad's factory in the mountains above Tegucigalpa.
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