Labrador, Arariva Parian · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Labrador, Arariva Parian
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cuzco; Cusco; Lima; South America; West Indies
Description: This image depicts a native man standing in a field protecting a field of crops from the swarm of sparrows. The man is holding a whip in his right hand as he swings it towards the birds and he is holding a walking stick in his left hand. His guard dog is depicted helping him scare away the birds as he rests on his back and rests on his head. Some birds are flying in the air while three are on the ground eating the sprouts coming out from the ground. 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:23751
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_23751_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Scarecrow; Hunting Dogs; Fields; Sowing Season; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Colonization