Picture (Barthel):

"... use 5 each side" said Kere Muti when shown a photograph of this Rei Miro in 1914. And Román Hei agreed that it was worn by women. Type of wood unknown. (Fischer)

"... a rei-miro inscribed with a continous row of rongo-rongo signs was found in the hands of Te Rangihaiata at Waikanae on New Zealand as early as March 1851, when it was presented to Sir George Grey. The name of this crescent-shaped tablet was recorded to be Te Matumotu-o-te-ahi-o-te-okoro. Although this specimen is among the best-known Easter Island objects in the British Museum and is frequently referred to and illustrated, all scholars have overlooked the important fact that it was collected in New Zealand thirteen years before the first rongo-rongo signs were recognized on Easter Island. In fact, Pacific travelers and even residents in New Zealand had seen and possessed this fine example of Easter Island rongo-rongo before the alleged discovery of this script in 1864 by the first arriving missionary Eugène Eyraud." (Heyerdahl 3)