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Title
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Entiero de los Conde Svios
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Description
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This image depicts the burial practices of the Condesuyo region in the Inca Empire. The author explains that the deceased would be adorned in garments and buried sitting upright. They would also put gold and silver in the mouths of the deceased. The deceased in the image is depicted sitting upright in front of the tomb labelled as amayanacan uptapnaca [town of the dead]. There is a skeleton to demonstrate that it is a tomb. The figures on the right are depicted crying and mourning the dead.
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Image Creator
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Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
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Identifier
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mta:20467
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Source Name
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El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
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Image
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mta_20467_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Burial
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Funeral
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Traditions
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Death
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Tombs
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Inca Empire
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Inca
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Indigenous Peoples
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Indigenous