Mvi Brabo i Colerico Padre Contra los Caciques Prencipales y Contra sus Yndios. Porque le Defiende a las Solteras y Donzellas, le Mata de Palos a los Yndios · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Mvi Brabo i Colerico Padre Contra los Caciques Prencipales y Contra sus Yndios. Porque le Defiende a las Solteras y Donzellas, le Mata de Palos a los Yndios
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; South America; West Indies; Peru
Description: This image is illustrated in a chapter that discusses the Christian priests in the colonial government in Peru. This image depicts a Spanish parish priest standing over an indigenous man with his foot hovering over his face and a stick in his left hand. The priest is dressed in ecclesiastic adornments while the indigenous man is dressed in a simple tunic. The priest beats the indigenous man to death for having defended indigenous women from the priests. The author criticizes the priests for sexually harassing and abusing the unmarried indigenous women.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23543
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_23543_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Church Hierarchy; Christianity; Colonialism; Colonization; Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous Women; Abuse; Parish Priests