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Title
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Travaxa: Hailli Chacra Iapvicvi Pacha, Agosto, Yapuy Quilla
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Description
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This image is reflected in the final chapter of Ayala’s chronicle where he provides a description of labours and festivals that occur in the rural areas of the Spanish colonial Andes during each month of the Inca calendar year. This image depicts the month of August which was a time of triumphal songs to celebrate the harvest, as well as a time for turning the soil in preparation for a new harvest season. The sun is illustrated shining in the top left corner of the image. There is a line of indigenous men dressed in traditional garb holding agricultural tools as they sing a song. The song lyrics are written above their heads: Ayau haylli yau, ayau haylli yau, ayau haylli yau, ayau haylli yau. chaymi coya, chaymi palla [Ayaw haylli, yaw, ayaw haylli, yaw, ayaw haylli, yaw, ayaw haylli, yaw, here is the queen, here is the lady]. There are three bowing women on the right side of the image and one woman who is standing with a cup in her right hand. The words Ahaylli [viva] are written beside the standing woman and the bowing women. The caption at the bottom of the image reads agosto, [c]hacra yapuy [august, ninth month].
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Image Creator
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Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
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Identifier
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mta:24224
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Source Name
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El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
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Image
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Subject
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Indigenous Peoples
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Colonialism
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Celebration
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Agriculture
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August
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Harvest
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