Otabo Calle Pvcllacoc · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Otabo Calle Pvcllacoc
Subject: Children; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples; Pucllacoc; Playful
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Cusco; Cuzco; West Indies; Peru; South America
Description: The author explains that there were ten paths for men to follow in the Inca Empire based on age division. This eighth group is called pucllacoc [playful]. This group refers to children aged five to nine years old and their duties include helping their mothers and fathers as best as possible with younger siblings. The child in the image is depicted playing with a sling and a stone and wearing a head garb that appears to have a bat skin on it. The caption at the bottom of the image reads “de edad de cinco años niño de la dotrina” which translates to “five years old, child of school age.”
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20279
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_20279_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Children; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples; Pucllacoc; Playful