3 Chichero

These wooden vessels had their origin in the keros, ritual or sumptuary objects of the Inca nobility. The keros undergo rapid formal transformations to adapt to the new social circumstances and enter the realm of popular peasant art, hermetic art, loaded with symbolism and ritual use. They are pieces elaborated by an artist of the community for its use, worked with primitive tools. These vessels date from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of this century.