Amojonadores Deste Reino, Vna Cavcho Inga, Cona Raqvi Inga · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Amojonadores Deste Reino, Vna Cavcho Inga, Cona Raqvi Inga
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 two men named Una Caucho Inca and Conaraqui Inca establishing boundary markers within the Inca Empire. By order of the Inca king, Topa Inca Yupanqui, these men were tasked with creating ditches and landmarks to mark the borders of the territories and provinces in the empire. Both men in this image are illustrated working hard by placing bricks on a boundary marker which appears to be a walled structure. There is another territory marker in the background of the image surrounded by the Andes.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20565
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_20565_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Officials; Borders; Territories; Provinces; Inca; Inca Empire; Topa Inca Yupanqui; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples