Procicion Aivnos I Penitencia Vacailli Zazicvi Llaqvicvi · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Procicion Aivnos I Penitencia Vacailli Zazicvi Llaqvicvi
Subject: Processions; Mourning; Fasting; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies
Description: This image depicts the month that the people in the kingdom of the Inca Empire were lawfully required to fast and mourn. They would walk together in processions with long spears that had flags on them, as illustrated in the image, and they would cry to appease their idols. They would scream out and ask for rain and food in return for their fasting and mourning. The people in the image are depicted with tears running down their face, with many looking down to the ground.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20444
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_20444_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Processions; Mourning; Fasting; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples