Fiesta De Los Colla Svios Havisca Mallco Capaca Colla · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Fiesta De Los Colla Svios Havisca Mallco Capaca Colla
Subject: Dancing; Festivals; Music; Celebration; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies
Description: This chapter is dedicated to discussing the various celebrations and festivals that would be held in the Inca Empire. This image depicts the celebrations held in the Collasuyo region in the Inca Empire. There is a figure on the right side of the image playing a large drum hanging from a wooden post with a child standing beside them. There is a large crowd of people illustrated on the left side of the image taking part in the festivities. Some figures are illustrated with flutes in their mouths as they play music. There is a caption written under the drum which reads “colla pampa/sanchalli” [the plateau in that quarter/in Sanchalli].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20514
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_20514_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Dancing; Festivals; Music; Celebration; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples