LAS éLITES ANDINAS COLONIALES Y LA MATERIALIZACIóN DE SUS MEMORIAS PARTICULARES EN LOS "QUEROS DE LA TRANSICIóN" (VASOS DE MADERA DEL SIGLO XVI)

the quero vessels were a cultural support system that reacted rapidly to the visual incentives of 16th century european paintings. thus, these pieces began to display iconographic changes almost immediately after the spanish arrival in ？the indies.？ in this regard, the cusco-made inka quero vessels-wooden cups with abstract geometric designs that themselves sustained the inka memory-underwent a decorative transformation, giving way to the so-called ？transitional queros.？ these cups displayed visual signifiers that were more figurative and polychromatic than their predecessors. as in the inka period, these transitional quero vessels continued to be associated with the cusco elite, and therefore carried not a single collective memory of andean colonial times, but distinct personal memories in competition with one another, which corresponded to each of the noble lineages of the native cusque？os. this article attempts to demonstrate that the iconographic changes detected in the transitional quero vessels responded to the cusco nobles？ need to tell and retell their respective histories, their ？rites of the past.？