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| Keywords: Inca - Kero with Jaguar Handle - Walters 61345 - Three Quarter.jpg Keros were conical drinking vessels used throughout the Inca empire for the ritual consumption of chicha maize beer While the elite drank from gold and silver keros local administrators exchanged wooden keros The jaguar-like creature clinging to this kero's rim may be a katari a fantastic animal combining feline and reptilian characteristics between 1400 1532 Late Horizon wood cm 30 6 16 3 accession number 61 345 13434 Mrs John A Stokes Jr New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of Mrs John A Stokes Jr 2003 Art of the Ancient Americas The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2010 place of origin Peru Walters Art Museum license Kero cups 15th century decorative arts cups 16th century decorative arts cups Pre-Columbian art in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
