Cesto Calle Macta · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cesto Calle Macta
Subject: Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples; Macta; Inca Empire; Inca
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Cuzco; West Indies; Peru; South America; Cusco
Description: The author explains that there were ten paths for pmen to follow in the Inca Empire based on age division. This sixth group was called macta [young boy]. This group was young boys aged twelve to eighteen years old who had the duties of watching over farmer’s herds and to catch birds that would be used for meat. The young boy depicted in the image is illustrated holding a net in his right hand and three dead birds in his left. There is a herd of llamas depicted standing behind him. The caption at the bottom of the image reads “de edad de doze años cirue a la comunidad y sapci” which translates to “twelve years old, he serves the community and their sapsi [property].”
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20277
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_20277_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples; Macta; Inca Empire; Inca