Primera Calle Avacoc Varmi · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Primera Calle Avacoc Varmi
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies; Peru
Description: The author explains that there were ten paths for women to follow in the Inca Empire based on age division. This first group of women were called auacoc huarmi [weaver woman]. These women were the wives of warrior’s and were thirty-three years old when they married their warrior husbands. Their duties were to weave garments for the Inca, captains and soldiers. The woman in this image is depicted kneeling while weaving from a loom which appears to be strapped around her back. The caption on the image reads de edad de treynta y tres años, muger de tributo which translates to thirty-three years old, woman tribute.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20282
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_20282_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Weaving; Weaving Women; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples; Auacoc Huarmi