Vecitador I Vedor Destos Reinos, Taripacoc Papri Inga · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Vecitador I Vedor Destos Reinos, Taripacoc Papri Inga
Subject: Taripacoc; Inspector; Administrative Officials; Inca; Inca Empire; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples
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 the taripacoc [inspector] standing in the centre of the image wearing ear ornaments and holding a walking stick in his left hand. The inspectors were responsible for checking in on communities, storehouses, tambos [housing for royal officials], and nuns in the empire. The author explains that these officials would make up false stories and lie to the Inca about what they would find on their inspections in order to gain the Inca’s favour.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20712
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_20712_OBJ.jpg