Pre-Columbian Inca Wooden Kero and surface wear are consistent

and surface wear are consistent with long burial and great antiquity

and weathering consistent with age

whose fragrant smoke served as an offering to deities and ancestors

Such textiles adorned mummies and funerary equipment

Pre-Columbian Inca Wooden Kero and surface wear are consistentPre Columbian Inca Wooden Kero Peru, Inca Empire, ca. 14001532 CE A finely carved wooden kero (qero) of classic Inca form, featuring deeply incised geometric decoration composed of alternating triangular motifs filled with parallel linear hatching. Ceremonial drinking vessels such as this were used by the Inca nobility during ritual feasting, diplomatic gatherings, and religious ceremonies, often serving as symbols of status, reciprocity, and social