a rare easter island wooden fish gorget

REI MIRO

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a rare easter island wooden fish gorget
rei miro
Carved as a crescent-shaped fish with notched upper edge, grooved gills and tail, the eye with fishbone circlet about obsidian disc inlay, two lugs for suspension at rear
43cm. long

Provenance

Admiral Gibson on H.M.S. Topaz, 1868

Exhibited

L'Ile de Paques: Une Enigme?, Brussels, 1990, no. 226

Lot Essay

As the cataloguer remarks in the catalogue of the Brussels exhibition, it is curious to note how seldom fish are represented in the art of Easter Island, whose people depend so much on fish for food, and when they are represented, it is usually as a rei miro

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