Gorget (Rei Miro)
Pacific Islands, Polynesia, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) · 1800s · Cleveland Museum of Art
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Elegant, crescent-shaped gorgets or chest ornaments known as rei miro (“necklace of wood”) were generally worn by chiefly women of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The abstracted forms at the tips of this example replace the human heads that are more typical. Chiefly women of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) wore crescent-shaped gorgets like this one.
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Details
- Maker
- Pacific Islands, Polynesia, Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
- Date
- 1800s
- Medium
- wood
- Dimensions
- Overall: 30.8 x 69.8 cm (12 1/8 x 27 1/2 in.)
- Place of origin
- Pacific Islands
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · Not on view
- Credit line
- The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0