| Native Name | Quero |
| Object Number | 42-21-108 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Cuzco |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Period | Colonial Period |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Lacquer | Pigment |
| Iconography | Chicha | Corn Beer | Human | Rainbow | Feline | Flower | Plant |
| Description | Laquered kero with flat base, flared sides and human face carved in relief. Laquered scenes with Inca, Inca Queen, rainbows, plants, flowers, feline head. Laquering = pigment added to maliable resin from a semi-domesticated plant from the Amazon. The resin is stretched thin and cut into desired shapes and then pasted onto the object. A clear laquer is applied over all of the cut work. |
| Height | 19.3 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 18.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Percy C. Madeira Jr., 1942 |
| Other Number | 416 - Collector Number |
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