Entiero de Chinchai Svios · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Entiero de Chinchai Svios
Subject: Burial; Funeral; Traditions; Processions; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies
Description: This image depicts the burial traditions of the people in the Chinchaysuyos region of the Inca Empire. The author explains that the burial would take place five days after the death and the citizens would hold a procession where they carry the body adorned in garments. The dead body is depicted being carried on a plank of wood over the shoulders of two men. The dead man’s yquima [widow] is illustrated looking at the ground, holding a stick as she cries for her husband. They are illustrated taking the body to the pucullo [tomb] on the left side of the image. There is a skeleton illustrated on the pucullo to demonstrate that it is a tomb. There is a caption at the top of the image which reads “aya defunto” [deceased] and a caption at the bottom which reads “enterrio” [burial].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20450
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_20450_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Burial; Funeral; Traditions; Processions; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples

Media: mta_20450_OBJ.jpg