Como los Criollos Negros Hurtan Plata de sus Amos Para Enganar a las Yndias Putas, y las Negras Criollas Hurtan Para Seruir a sus Galanes Espanoles y Negros · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Como los Criollos Negros Hurtan Plata de sus Amos Para Enganar a las Yndias Putas, y las Negras Criollas Hurtan Para Seruir a sus Galanes Espanoles y Negros
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cuzco; Cusco; Lima; South America; West Indies
Description: This image depicts an African slave on the left side of the page as he gives money to an indigenous woman on the right. The slave is dressed in Spanish clothing while the indigenous woman is dressed in her own culture’s traditional clothing. The author explains that some slaves in colonial Spanish society in Peru would steal their master’s money because they would not feed them. He also says that the slaves sought money for native prostitutes. There is dialogue written by the man’s mouth which reads, caymi culque yndia [here’s some money, indian]. The woman replies, apo muy cino [Lord, dear sir].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23635
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_23635_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Slaves; African Americans; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Colonization