拍品 554
554
a rare easter island wooden fish gorget
a rare easter island wooden fish gorget

REI MIRO

细节
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
来源
Admiral Gibson on H.M.S. Topaz, 1868
展览
L'Ile de Paques: Une Enigme?, Brussels, 1990, no. 226

拍品专文

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