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Peruvian Pacchas and Keros

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

S. K. Lothrop
S. K. Lothrop*
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Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass.
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Two distinctive types of wooden drinking vessels, known as keros and pacchas, were manufactured in Peru both before and after the Spanish conquest. Thus they exemplify the transition from archaeology to history and ethnology. Each has counterparts in pottery, metal, or stone, but the majority are of wood, usually decorated with colored motifs produced by paint with a lacquer base. This also was used on a few unique vessels of eccentric shapes (Fig. 64 b). Keros are fairly common; pacchas exceedingly rare. Little has been written about either group.

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American Antiquity , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , January 1956 , pp. 233 - 243
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1956

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