Depocito Del Inga Collca · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Depocito Del Inga Collca
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Cuzco; Cusco; West Indies; South America; Peru
Description: This chapter is dedicated to discussing the Inca and his life. This image depicts the Inca in front of his many collca [storehouses]. There are four storehouses illustrated at top of the image behind the Inca and four at the bottom in front of the Inca. The Inca had storehouses in many regions over the empire and they were mostly filled with food items such as maize, sweet potatoes, coca, and chile peppers. The Inca is depicted wearing his traditional regalia and holding a scepter in his left hand and pointing with his right as he speaks to an administrator who supervises the collca. The administrator is depicted holding a quipu in both of his hands. The caption to the left of the Inca’s head identifies him as Topa Inca Yupanqui. The caption to the right of the administrator’s head identifies him as administrador, suyoyoc, apo poma chaua [administrator, Apo Poma Chaua].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20555
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_20555_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Topa Inca Yupanqui; Inca Empire; Storehouses; Collca; Administrators; Quipu; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples; Agriculture; Inca

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