Yerba Mate Metal Silver Tone Drinking Cup w/ Description PW

Description: Yerba Mate Metal Silver Tone Drinking Cup w/ Description PW Yerba Mate leaves have been found in pre-Columbian tombs in Ancan, A city near Lima in Peru next to food objects, which demonstrates it use by Incas. This one is silver tone and is plated. It has a card in it to describe what it is. These is something on the base that looks like writing, but we can't make it out. This one is PLATED as you can note in the inscription on the base, it is chipped through. Check this out a unique piece. Approximate Measurements This one stands 5 12 inches tallit is 5 inches across the baseWEigh 10 ounces Description of Yeaba Mate Cup Since the early days of Catillan occupation of Paraguay, as report by Don Hernando Arlos De Saavedra (governor from 1592-1594), notice was given of yerba mate being consumed by natives. The first Jesuits who settled in Paraguay established several factories where the use of yerba mate leave already existed among the Guanrani Indians who inhabited the region. It was late discovered that Brazilian native living on the banks of Parana River also used this. Located in regions where the essence grew naturally, traded it in order to consume it. Those tribes from Peru, Chile and Bolivia transported the product for thousands of kilometersFor more than on and a half centuris (1610-1738), when the socity of Jesus was expelled Jesuits exploited yerba mate trade and exports. Father Nicolos Durain noted that the Indians were drinking Mate with Hot water and that they could work without it, since it was their only food.Today drinking mate is a social experience and many drinker will share the same mate with other people. Interestingly, in spite of the tremendous popularity of the mate drinking i is impossible to get a mate in local bar or other places where tea or coffee are served

Price: 35.99 USD

Location: Hanover Park, Illinois

End Time: 2025-01-24T18:59:13.000Z

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