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Title
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Entiero de Anti Svios
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Description
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This image depicts the burial traditions of the people in the Antisuyo region of the Inca Empire. The author explains that this group of people were cannibals and when a person died, they ate their flesh to the bone. When the skeleton was exposed, they brought the skeleton to uitaca [tree] and placed the body inside without having any ceremonies to celebrate the dead. The is one figure placing the skeleton inside the tree, and a female figure on the far-right side of the image depicted crying. The skeleton is labeled as aya [deceased], and the female figure is labeled as yquima [widow]. The caption at the bottom of the image reads “enterrio” [burial].
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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:20461
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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_20461_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Burial
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Funeral
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Death
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Traditions
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Cannibalism
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Inca Empire
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Inca
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Indigenous
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Indigenous Peoples