Tiki Mugs
Coco Joe's Pele in Lava Bath Ashtray
aka Coco Joe's Ashtray #252 in 4 collections
This is a round ashtray shaped like a lava pool with the goddess Pele lounging inside with only her head, shoulders, and arms visible. Made of a resin/plastic compound containing some actual crushed lava from Hawaii.
Tiki tOny Handmade Tiki Head Mug
in 1 collection
This Tiki head mug has very large coffee bean shaped eyes, large nostrils and a mouth full of gritted teeth. Comes in a variety of glaze combinations. Each is hand-made and unique.
Tura Satana Mug
in 1 collection
This mug was made for the Tura,Tura,Tura Art show at M Modern in Palm Springs. Tura Satana was an American actress and former exotic dancer. She was best known for her role as "Varla" in Russ Meyer's 1965 cult film, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. The mug depicts a young Tura Satana kneeling and holding a knife in one hand. Glaze colors vary.
Bosko Maori Mug 2012 Artist Proof
in 2 collections
This is a mug designed like a Maori Tiki head with an extended tongue and moko patterns. Artist proof glaze colors vary.
Hobbyist Norcrest Skull Mug
in 12 collections
This skull mug design was originally manufactured by Norcrest. It has a bone-shaped handle. It has slightly sunken eyes and nasal cavity with stress fractures on the front and back. Hobbyist versions come in a wide variety of glaze colors. Additionally, this design has been picked up by several restaurants and businesses after Norcrest went out of business.
Last Call of Cthulhu Series #1 Gray
aka Cthulhu Mug in 0 collections
This large tankard depicts H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu (pronounced: "kuh-THOO-loo"). Cthulhu made his first official appearance in the short story "The Call of Cthulhu," written by Lovecraft in 1926, although no living character in the story ever sets eyes on the actual creature. The characters we meet in the story see Cthulhu either in dreams or in artwork. The narrator of the story says that a statue of Cthulhu resembled, in part, an octopus, a dragon and a human-like or anthropomorphic creature. This tankard shows an octopus head on the front with dragon/bat wings stretching out overhead. Made of stoneware. This tankard was produced in four different series of glaze combinations (gray/blue/purple/brown), ten in each series, for a total of 40 produced, not including artist proofs.
Monster Brain Series #1 Turquoise Blue
in 2 collections
This mug belongs to the Weird-Oh's Rat Fink Big Daddy Roth Kustom genre. It is a mug shaped like a monster head with large crossed eyes, rows of sharp teeth, and its brain exposed. Made of high fire stoneware. There are multiple series of glaze combinations with different washes. This one, series one, is mostly white, with a wash of turquoise blue.
Monster Brain Series #2 Gray
in 1 collection
This mug belongs to the Weird-Oh's Rat Fink Big Daddy Roth Kustom genre. It is a mug shaped like a monster head with large crossed eyes, rows of sharp teeth, and its brain exposed. Made of high fire stoneware. There are multiple series of glaze combinations with different washes. This one, series two, is mostly white, with a wash of gray.
Rotten Ralph Series #1 Gray
in 2 collections
This is a mug shaped like a zombie head with an exposed brain. The style is cartoon-like with vacant oval eyes, a pug nose, and an overbite with four square teeth protruding. Cast in high-fire stoneware. Produced in different series with different colored glaze washes for each series.
The Trophy in Brown
in 27 collections
A Jivaro headhunter's shrunken head with mouth and eyes sealed in twine and beaded with small multi-colored skull beads (50 of the mugs issued come with beads which are gold plated). The hair is bunched and pulled straight up to form a "handle". Glazed in matte brown. This is the first issued color-way glaze for this mug.
Munktiki & Ocea Otica Skull Triple Stacker
in 2 collections
This skull design was originally manufactured by Munktiki as a salt & pepper set. Each skull has round sunken eye sockets, an inverted v-shaped nasal cavity and eight clenched teeth. This mug is a collaboration with Munktiki that was cast, assembled, and glazed by Ocea Otica (Cass McClure) utilizing the original salt & pepper molds. Four of these mugs were made, each one unique (a black one with red eyes, mottled brown, green & black, and orange & blue with green eyes).
RJL Model Airplane Engine Mug
in 5 collections
This is a mug shaped like a model airplane engine. According to Dan Coscina, co-owner of Daga, approximately 600-1200 of these mugs were made for a one-time production run as a promotional item.