Vintage Copperwork Depicting Winged Messenger. Latin American. Stunning & Distinctive.

Really Beautiful Vintage Chilean/ Latin American Rendition of the Winged Messenger.
Talented Copperwork Artistry. Winged Messengers are Legendary Historical Runners in the Andean Mountains when communication was not as simple as it is today.
"The Inca used the chasqui (Shasqui) – a.k.a. “the runners” – to deliver messages throughout the empire. These agile, highly-trained, and incredibly fit messengers were estimated to run as much as 200 miles per day, delivering everything from news to lightweight goods like fish. Relay stations, called tambos, were used for the chasquis to stop and transfer messages onto the next chasqui, who would carry the message on through the rest of the empire. Today, a number of tambos, which were also used for other administrative and military purposes, still stand scattered across the remnants of the Inca Empire.
Each chasqui carried two items, a quipu and a pututu. The quipu was used to store and transport information through a system of knotted strings that represented different bits of information based on the type, color, and number of strings. The chasquis were able and allowed to read, translate, and transfer the information on the quipus. Meanwhile the pututu was a conch shell used as a trumpet to signal to the next chasqui along the route that a runner was close, so that they could prepare to run."