This is Henry
Just a stone's throw from Hollywood is Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. Final resting place for hundreds of celebrities from Walt Disney to Sammy Davis Jr., the sprawling cemetery is also home to "Henry", a thirty-one inch Moai head from Easter Island. Although the figure hasn't been authenticated, it was obtained in 1954 by park founder Dr. Hubert Eaton who affectionately named it after his friend Henry Wendt. On a trip to Easter Island, so the story goes, Wendt and Eaton received the head in a legal transaction between Rapanui fishermen who were using it as ballast for a boat.
Now you can see Henry for yourself in an exhibit titled "In Search of Tiki" at the Forest Lawn Museum.
Contrasting traditional Oceanic Art with examples of "Tiki Americana" the exhibit also includes a surprising array of original artwork loaned by Walt Disney Imagineering and the Disney Animation Research Library, as well as some fantastic pieces from the personal collection of Marc and Alice Davis.
Concept painting by Colin Campbell for the proposed New York World's Fair presentation "Walt Disney's Legend of the Enchanted Island", 1963.
"In Search of Tiki" is FREE and is running now thru January 4.
Now you can see Henry for yourself in an exhibit titled "In Search of Tiki" at the Forest Lawn Museum.
Enchanted Tiki Garden Gods - Watercolor by Rolly Crump, 1963
Contrasting traditional Oceanic Art with examples of "Tiki Americana" the exhibit also includes a surprising array of original artwork loaned by Walt Disney Imagineering and the Disney Animation Research Library, as well as some fantastic pieces from the personal collection of Marc and Alice Davis.
Concept painting by Colin Campbell for the proposed New York World's Fair presentation "Walt Disney's Legend of the Enchanted Island", 1963."In Search of Tiki" is FREE and is running now thru January 4.
