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Kero Cup in Shape of Head

Medium: Wood, pigment inlay
Place Made: Cuzco, Peru
Dates: 17th-18th century
Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 6 3/8 x 5 3/8 in. (19.1 x 16.2 x 13.7 cm)
Collections: Arts of the Americas
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 39.563
Credit Line: Museum Collection Fund
Image: Overall, 39.563_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: The vessel is constructed from a single piece of wood. On the front, a face is carved; on the back, the hair provides a panel for a figural scene in which an Inca ruler, sitting on a low stool and holding a shield, is presented with a prisoner of war whose face is painted with three horizontal bands of color like the face on the kero cup itself. The scene also includes a figure holding a parasol over another figure and a seated feline. The forehead forms the rim of the cup and the neck forms the foot of the vessel. Inca themes were used on kero cups throughout the Colonial era.

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