Segvnda Calle Paiacona · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Segvnda Calle Paiacona
Subject: Payacona; Payacuna; Paiacona; Weaving; Weaving Women; Inca Empire; Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous; Inca
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies
Description: The author explains that there were ten paths for women to follow in the Inca Empire based on age division. This second group was called the payacona [old women]. These were women who were fifty years old who weaved clothing for the common people. The woman in the image is depicted kneeling as she weaves at a loom which is strapped around her back. The caption written on the image reads “de edad de cincuenta años muger que cirue al prencipal,” which translates to “fifty-years old, woman who serves the nobles.”
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20283
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_20283_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Payacona; Payacuna; Paiacona; Weaving; Weaving Women; Inca Empire; Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous; Inca