La Borachera, Machasca · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La Borachera, Machasca
Subject: Ritual; Devil; Indigenous Peoples; Drunkards; Colonialism; Colonization
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cuzco; Cusco; Lima; West Indies; South America
Description: This image depicts a ritual in which an indigenous woman and man conjure the devil. The author explains that when natives of Peru would drink, they would worship their old gods and perform rituals for illness or death, which would result in the conjuring of the devil. The woman appears to be performing a ritual for the crouching man on the right who is vomiting. A horned, winged devil is depicted sitting on the back of the vomiting man to demonstrate the ritual that the woman is performing. The woman is standing as she hits her drum and speaks, “auaya ayauaya machac, machaclla tucuy cay upyac, upyaclla tucuy cay quimnac, quipnaclla tucuy cay camca serui, suyulla, mina suyulla” [the drunkard is just a drunkard, the drinker just a drinker, who vomits, only vomits, his turn is to serve you, Devil, the mines are his turn].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23752
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_23752_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Ritual; Devil; Indigenous Peoples; Drunkards; Colonialism; Colonization

Media: mta_23752_OBJ.jpg