Capitvlo Primera Calle Vecita General Avca Camaioc · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Capitvlo Primera Calle Vecita General Avca Camaioc
Subject: Inca Emperor; Inca; Warrior; War; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples; Auca Camayoc; Inca Empire
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Cuzco; South America; West Indies; Peru; Cusco
Description: The author explains that there were ten paths for men to follow in the Inca Empire based on age division. The first path is of the auca camayoc [master of war], brave warriors who entered their service at twenty-five years old and ended at fifty years old and fought for the emperor. The man depicted in the image is labelled as auca camayoc. There are words written at the bottom right side of the image which reads “de edad de treynta y tres anos” which translates to “thirty-three years old.” The words written in the bottom left corner of the image reads “balente moso yndio tributario” which translates to “brave young Indian tributary.” The young man depicted in the image is illustrated holding a decapitated head of an enemy in his right hand and a shield in his left.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20270
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_20270_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Inca Emperor; Inca; Warrior; War; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples; Auca Camayoc; Inca Empire

Media: mta_20270_OBJ.jpg