Coreon Maior I Menor Hatvn Chasqvi Chvrv, Mvllo Chasqvi, Cvraca · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Coreon Maior I Menor Hatvn Chasqvi Chvrv, Mvllo Chasqvi, Cvraca
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; West Indies; South America
Description: This chapter discusses the system of administrative officials in the Inca Empire. This image depicts a chasque [runner] who was responsible for taking food from storehouses and bringing it to the Inca when requested to. These runners were stationed at half-league intervals so that they could run faster and be time efficient whenever the Inca would call on them. This runner is depicted wearing a feathered visor on his head and blowing into a shell trumpet. He is also illustrated holding a star shaped club, a sling, and a basket of food in his left hand. The author explains that the feathered visor and trumpet were both visual and auditory cues to warn and prepare the next runner.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20564
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_20564_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Officials; Runner; Chasque; Storehouses; Inca; Inca Empire; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples