Regidores: Tenga Libro Qvipo, Cv[en]ta, Surcococ · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Regidores: Tenga Libro Qvipo, Cv[en]ta, Surcococ
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; West Indies; South America
Description: This image depicts a native official in Spanish colonial Peru. The man is a regidores [councillor] for a local village who would do accounting work. He is depicted holding a book in his left hand and a quipu in his right. Quipu’s were recording devices in the Inca Empire in which knots where tied along ropes to communicate numbers. The official is also depicted carrying a long staff in his right arm and wearing traditional clothing that has embroidery on the tunic. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, en este rreyno [in this kingdom].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23715
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_23715_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Government; Native Officials; Regidores; Councillor; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Colonization