Gorget, between 1775 and 1800

  • Easter Island, Oceanian

Toromiro wood

  • Overall: 9 3/8 × 24 1/4 × 1 1/4 inches (23.8 × 61.6 × 3.2 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Henry Ford II Fund

81.698

James Hooper

1989. Plymouth Museum

Mr. Herd. (L & R Entwistle and Company, Ltd., London, England)

1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Phelps, S. Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa, and the Americas (The James Hooper Collection). London, 1976, no. 381, pl. 45. Hooper, J. and C. Burland. The Art of Primitive People. London, 1953, pl. 16b. Bulletin of the DIA 60, no. 1/2. 1981-82, p. 4 (ill.). 100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, p. 76-77 (ill.).

Easter Island, Oceanian, Gorget, between 1775 and 1800, toromiro wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Henry Ford II Fund, 81.698.