Nguzu-nguzu or toto-isu

Posted on September 27, 2007

Which is an anthropomorphic canoe prow figurehead guiding the boat and protect its crew. There is a wonderful work written by Deborah Waite from Hawaii, on google.com about Toto-Isu and the link is :www.tribalarts.com/feature/solomon/index.html. Anyway I had to carve one more of those Toto-isu in miniature and I was very pleased with it. Last time it took me a few trials to get one properly done