Gorget (Rei Miro)
1800s
Maker Unknown
Oceania
Gorget (Rei Miro), 1800s. Pacific Islands, Polynesia, Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Wood; overall: 30.8 x 69.8 cm (12 1/8 x 27 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken 1961.406 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.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- wood
- Medium
- wood
- Dimensions
- Overall: 30.8 x 69.8 cm (12 1/8 x 27 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Oceania
- Accession Number
- 1961.406
- Credit Line
- The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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