Los Hijos de los Principales Ellos Propios an de Danzar Delante el Sancticimo Sacramento y Delante de la Uirgen Maria y Delante de los Sanctos · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Los Hijos de los Principales Ellos Propios an de Danzar Delante el Sancticimo Sacramento y Delante de la Uirgen Maria y Delante de los Sanctos
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; West Indies; South America
Description: This image is illustrated in a chapter that discusses the descendants of the Inca and Andean nobles under Spanish colonial rule in Peru and their importance to a revived Andean society. This image depicts three native men dressed in traditional dancing attire as they dance before the holy sacrament on the left side of the image. The author explains that the dancing was performed to honour God and King David who also danced before the sacrament. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, en este rreyno [in this kingdom].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23656
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_23656_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Government; Native Lords; Native Officials; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Colonization