Kero
Only faint traces of pigmented resin remain in the incised designs of this pair of keros. These designs show women in Andean dress holding flowers, alternating with images of a tree flanked by giant parrots.
Keros of this type depart from earlier colonial design formats. The feline handles permit the vessel's waist to be exposed during the ceremony of exchange and thus allow the main scene—which in the conventional format is restricted to a narrower upper register—to occupy a larger portion of the kero.
Keros of this type depart from earlier colonial design formats. The feline handles permit the vessel's waist to be exposed during the ceremony of exchange and thus allow the main scene—which in the conventional format is restricted to a narrower upper register—to occupy a larger portion of the kero.
Artwork Details
- Title: Kero
- Date: 17th–18th century
- Geography: Peru
- Culture: Quechua
- Medium: Wood, metal stud and pigmented resin inlays
- Dimensions: H. 10 in. (25.4 cm)
- Classification: Wood-Containers
- Credit Line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993
- Object Number: 1994.35.23
- Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
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400–700 CE
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Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)
900–1100 CE
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