Rongorongo text L

A prototypical two-headed Rapanui reimiro, or ceremonial crescent-shaped gorget/epaulet, in excellent condition, 41.2 × 10.5 cm, made of Pacific rosewood (Orliac 2005).

A line of glyphs has been cut along the length of the bottom edge on the front.

Fischer reports from her notes that Katherine Routledge showed a photo of this object to two Rapanui elders in July 1914.

Reimiro 2 was sold by Reverend William Sparrow Simpson, a collector who had never been to Easter Island, to the trustees of Christy Collection in January 1875.

The trustees transferred it along with the rest of the Christy ethnological collection to the British Museum in 1883.