Pvlicia I Cristiandad y Cofrade Ueynte y Quatro Ermanos Desta Horden Santa de Yndios Yndias · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Pvlicia I Cristiandad y Cofrade Ueynte y Quatro Ermanos Desta Horden Santa de Yndios Yndias
Subject: Religion; Religious Orders; Confraternity; Indigenous Peoples; Christianity; Colonialism
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; South America; West Indies
Description: This image depicts two indigenous men and two indigenous women praying in front of an image of Saint Mary. They are illustrated kneeling and holding rosaries and tall candles in their hands. The author explains that these people were a confraternity of twenty-four indigenous men and women who dedicated themselves to a public religious order. They were a model of good conduct and Christianity. The caption below the image of Mary reads, “Santa Maria de Pena de Francia, 1613” [Saint Mary of Penafrancia]. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, “cristiandad” [christianity].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23799
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles; Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_23799_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Religion; Religious Orders; Confraternity; Indigenous Peoples; Christianity; Colonialism