Cup (Kero)

Inca culture, Pre-Columbian

1400 - 1532

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Cylindrical urn depicting personage sitting cross-legged with hands resting on feet. Figure wears elaborate headdress and mask; forked tongue emerges from open mouth.
Front section of a stone yoke. Carved with a strong male face in Teotihuacan style. Set-in eyes have arched brows extending to a heavy pug nose. Thick lips are curled down at the corners. Headdress has a crest of butterfly antennae. There are concentric Us on either side. A horizontal headdress brim steps up above the face, turns downward at corners, divides into three parallel ridges which turn inward to ear ornaments with pendants.
Vessel, Chupícuaro culture, Guanajuato, Mexico, Pre-Columbian, earthenware and slip