""Kero"" (Libation Cup)

ca. 1600

15.7 cm 17.8 cm

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In Andean cultures, beaker-shaped wooden drinking vessels, called keros, have been used in feasts for millennia, especially when toasting to one’s ancestors. Keros were filled with chicha, a drink, often fermented, made from corn. Higher-ranking Incas ate the meat of deer or a...

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Purchased by Georgia de Havenon, New York; given to Walters Art Museum, 2016.
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