Fiestas De Los Andi Svios Caia Caia Varmi Avca · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Fiestas De Los Andi Svios Caia Caia Varmi Avca
Subject: Music; Dancing; Festivals; Celebration; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; West Indies; South America
Description: This chapter is dedicated to discussing the various celebrations and festivals that would be held in the Inca Empire. This image depicts the music festivities celebrated by the people in the Antisuyo region of the Inca Empire. There are three figures depicted dancing in a circle holding hands, with the figure on the right playing a flute. There is a fourth figure in the background on the ride side of the image. They are depicted nude from the waist up. The author explains that the men would dress up as women during these celebrations.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20513
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_20513_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Music; Dancing; Festivals; Celebration; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples