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SUMMER 2018 VOL. 19 NO. 2


10 ON THE COVER


Traditional food and drink continue to sustain Indigenous identity and cultural (and political) survival. This richly carved Inka qero (wooden drinking cup) shows a mule team hauling house beams to the highlands as a Native woman offers a drink of chicha to the mule drivers.


Colonial Inka ceremonial drinking cup. AD 1550- 1800. Near Cusco (Cuzco); Peru. Wood, paint, tree pitch/gum. Carved, painted, aboriginally repaired. Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI or its agent from an unknown source in Hamburg, Germany, in 1929 using funds donated by Mrs. George (Thea) Heye. 9.1" x 22.4". 16/6132. This item is currently on view at NMAI – N.Y.


INDIAN +


NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN SUMMER 2018 FOOD


AND DRINK HEALTHY EATING AND SOVEREIGNTY


THE PERSISTENCE OF CHICHA


WAR AND


PEACE HUMBLE HERO OF D-DAY


NAVAJO TREATY OF 1868


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