Entiero de Anti Svios · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Entiero de Anti Svios
Subject: Burial; Funeral; Death; Traditions; Cannibalism; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Antisuyo; West Indies
Description: 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].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20461
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_20461_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Burial; Funeral; Death; Traditions; Cannibalism; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples