Cazador: Por No Ser Ocioso ni Garagan, Jugador, Ladron, Tiene Oficio de Cazador · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cazador: Por No Ser Ocioso ni Garagan, Jugador, Ladron, Tiene Oficio de Cazador
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; South America; West Indies
Description: This image depicts an Andean hunter in Spanish colonial Peru. The hunter is illustrated wearing Spanish clothing with puffed trousers and a tunic. There is a cloak around his neck that he has tied at the waist, most likely to keep it out of his way as he hunts. He is depicted standing in the centre of the image as he blows through a horn and holds a hawk on his right hand. The hunter also has dogs by his feet. Hunters would raise dogs and hawks as companions for the hunt as well as to guard homes from thieves. The hunting and guard dogs were highly protected, and if anyone were to harm or kill the dogs they would be punished and charged fees. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, trabajo [labour].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23748
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_23748_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Hunters; Hunting Dogs; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Colonization