Cleveland Museum of Art

Gorget (Rei Miro)

Date: 1800s
Medium: wood
Culture: Pacific Islands, Polynesia, Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Department: Oceania
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

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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