El Coreg[id]or I P[adr]e, Tiniente Anda Rrondando y Mirando la Guerguenza de las Mugeres · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: El Coreg[id]or I P[adr]e, Tiniente Anda Rrondando y Mirando la Guerguenza de las Mugeres
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; South America; Lima; West Indies
Description: This image is illustrated in a chapter that discusses and criticizes the government and society in Spanish conquered Peru. This image depicts a Corregidor [Magistrate] and a priest making their nightly rounds in indigenous pueblos. The author explains that these men made nightly rounds in local houses to lift women’s blankets and look at their genitals. The Corregidor is depicted lifting the blanket of a sleeping woman while the priest holds his candle and illuminates the room to look at the woman. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, probincias [provinces].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23350
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_23350_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Corregidor; Magistrates; Priests; Lieutenant; Colonialism; Indigenous Peoples; Sexual Harassment; Abuse