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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