Qvarta Calle Oncoc Cvmo · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Qvarta Calle Oncoc Cvmo
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Cuzco; South America; West Indies; Peru; Cusco
Description: The author explains that there were ten paths for women to follow in the Inca Empire based on age division. This group was called oncoc cumo [sick hunchback]. These were women who had disabilities such as physical deformities, illnesses, loss of hearing and blindness. The author explains that those who were capable of work would weave or spin and those who could not work would be used as concubines. The image depicts a hunchbacked woman who is spinning yarn while she walks. The caption on the image reads estas enfermas estauan ajuntadas de todas las edades y aci no se pone edad, que ciruen a los caciques prencipales, which translates to these sick women were of all ages so no age is given, they serve the noble caciques.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20285
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_20285_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Hunchback; Illness; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples; Oncoc Cumo; Disabilities