Entiero de los Conde Svios · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Entiero de los Conde Svios
Subject: Burial; Funeral; Traditions; Death; Tombs; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies
Description: 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.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20467
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_20467_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Burial; Funeral; Traditions; Death; Tombs; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous