STICK
Chimu culture, Peru
Around 1100-1470 AD.
Drink
Length: 93.5 cm
Staff with one end carved with a figure, legs bent and feet apart; sporting a biconical headdress and holding a cup in both hands.
Stick representing a character receiving or offering a kero – a wooden cup which the Incas gave as diplomatic gifts to villages that agreed to join them.
Supplied with its certificate of authenticity from Galerie 1492, Paris.
Ref.: 7307
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