A staircase at the Kona Kai Motel, Anaheim, California, 1965 and 2023. Kona Kai was a midcentury "Polynesian" motel, complete with a Japanese Guzei and "Tiki" masks from Mexico.
"Tiki culture has very little to do with authentic Polynesian culture. It's a pop culture and a hodge-podge of iconic symbols borrowed from different regions and peoples, and also largely invented by the imagination of many people who'd never set foot there and didn't understand it." Source