tiki

tiki
/tee"kee/, n.
1. (cap.) (in Polynesian mythology) the first man on earth.
2. (in Polynesian cultures) a carved image, as of a god or ancestor, sometimes worn as a pendant around the neck.
[1875-80; < Maori and Marquesan]

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