Coregidor de Minas, Como Lo Castiga Crvelemente a los Caciques Prencipales los Corregidores y Jueses con Poco Temor de la Justicia con Deferentes Castigos cin Tener Misericordia por Dios a los Pobres · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Coregidor de Minas, Como Lo Castiga Crvelemente a los Caciques Prencipales los Corregidores y Jueses con Poco Temor de la Justicia con Deferentes Castigos cin Tener Misericordia por Dios a los Pobres
Subject: Magistrates; Government; Conquest; Abuse; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; South America; West Indies
Description: This image is illustrated in a chapter that discusses and criticizes the government and society in Spanish conquered Peru. This image depicts a royal magistrate on the top right corner of the image sitting on a chair as he orders the abuse of indigenous nobles. There is an indigenous man riding on the back of a llama on the top left side of the image getting whipped on the back by another man. There is a nobleman tied by his feet hanging upside town on a post with his hands shackled. Beside him are two naked men standing upright with their arms tied to a post. The bottom right corner depicts a man with his feet in stocks and his hands together in prayer. There is a caption at the bottom of the image which reads, “en las minas” [in the mines].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23364
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
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Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Magistrates; Government; Conquest; Abuse; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism

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