Fiesta De Los Chinchai Svio Vavco Taqvi Vacon · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Fiesta De Los Chinchai Svio Vavco Taqvi Vacon
Subject: Music; Dancing; Singing; Celebration; Festivals; Drums; 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 a festival being held in the Chinchaysuyo region of the Inca Empire. There are four women illustrated in the image performing a uaucu taqui [song and dance]. The woman in the centre of the image and the woman on the right side of the image are depicted wearing feathered head garbs and blowing into what appears to be a musical instrument of sorts. The two women on the left side of the image are depicted playing a hand drum. The caption at the bottom of the image reads “guanoc pampa paucar pampa” [celebrations].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20512
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_20512_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Music; Dancing; Singing; Celebration; Festivals; Drums; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples