Contador Maior I Tezorero, Tavantin Svio Qvipoc Cvraca Condor Chava · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Contador Maior I Tezorero, Tavantin Svio Qvipoc Cvraca Condor Chava
Subject: Accountants; Treasurer; Quipu; Counting Board; Inca; Inca Empire; Condor Chaua; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples; Administrative Officials
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies; Peru
Description: This chapter discusses the system of administrative officials in the Inca Empire. This image depicts Condor Chaua, the royal accountant, treasurer and quipu interpreter of the Inca Empire. This official was tasked with counting and tracking the number of citizens in the empire, as well as keeping track of food. They would use devices such as counting boards and quipus to keep track. Condor Chaua is depicted standing in the centre of the image holding a quipu with both of his hands with an Inca counting board at the bottom left corner beside his feet. The caption at the bottom of the image reads “contador y tezorero” [accountant and treasurer].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20711
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_20711_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Accountants; Treasurer; Quipu; Counting Board; Inca; Inca Empire; Condor Chaua; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples; Administrative Officials

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