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Kero (Waisted Cup)

400–1000

Bolivia, Cochabamba(?), Tiwanaku style, 400-1000

Medium
earthenware with colored slips
Measurements
Overall: 22.3 x 17 cm (8 3/4 x 6 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1963.476
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Location
232 Andean
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Description

The kero is a distinctive Tiwanaku vessel form, imitated by the later Inka, who used the cups in political and religious ceremonies. It is assumed that the same was true at Tiwanaku, where impressive stone figures, perhaps rulers, hold keros as though they are emblems of authority. Perhaps, like the Inka, the Tiwanaku used keros to drink chicha, a corn beer shared to cement bonds of mutual obligation among allies.

Kero (Waisted Cup)

400–1000

Bolivia, Cochabamba(?), Tiwanaku style, 400-1000

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