This image is from 1963 in the Polynesian Cultural Center. Here we see the guide for the Tongan gardens. I have never seen tapa cloth worn as a skirt, and certainly not by a man.
And here is our first sighting of tiki.
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the quality of those slide scans is velly nice! keep them comin’!