Kero

Native Name:

Quero

Object Number:

42-21-108

Current Location:

Collections storage

Provenience:

Peru
Cuzco

Culture Area:

Andean

Period:

Colonial Period

Section:

American

Materials:

Wood
Lacquer
Pigment

Iconography:

Chicha
Corn Beer
Human
Rainbow
Feline
Flower
Plant

Description:

Laquered kero with flat base, flared sides and human face carved in relief. Laquered scenes with Inca, Inca Queen, rainbows, plants, flowers, feline head. Laquering = pigment added to maliable resin from a semi-domesticated plant from the Amazon. The resin is stretched thin and cut into desired shapes and then pasted onto the object. A clear laquer is applied over all of the cut work.

Credit Line:

Gift of Percy C. Madeira Jr.

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