Drinking vessel (""Kero"") with Jaguar Handle

1400-1532 (Late Horizon)

16.3 cm 30.6 cm

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"Keros" were conical drinking vessels used throughout the Inka empire for the ritual consumption of "chicha" (maize beer). While the elite drank from gold and silver vessels known as "aquillas," (such as the WAM's 2009.20.241 or 57.2307) local administrators exchanged wooden...

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Mrs. John A. Stokes, Jr., New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2003, by gift.
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