Kero
The kero is the paired ceremonial drinking cup of the Andes, a flared goblet most often carved from wood, drunk from in twos at rituals of alliance, hospitality and the great festivals of the Inca calendar. The paired cups were passed so that each party drank the other's offering, sealing friendship and reciprocal obligation, and the drink was usually chicha, the maize beer central to Andean ceremony. Inca nobles and officials received keros as marks of office, and the cups appear in colonial accounts as indispensable to the toasts that accompanied every treaty and celebration. After the Spani