Fiesta De Los Conde Svios Aia Milla Zainata · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Fiesta De Los Conde Svios Aia Milla Zainata
Subject: Dancing; Music; Drums; Celebration; Festivals; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cuzco; Cusco; South America; West Indies
Description: This chapter is dedicated to discussing the various celebrations and festivals that would be held in the Inca Empire. This image depicts the celebrations held in the Condesuyo region in the Inca Empire. There is a crowd of people on the right side of the image singing a song with the woman at the forefront holding and playing a drum. The three figures on the left side of the image are depicted wearing feathered clothing and a feathered head piece for the celebrations. They are also depicted wearing aya milla saynata [masks that resemble the dead]. There is a caption at the bottom of the image which identifies the location. Coropona was a peak between Arequipa and Ayacucho, which are both now modern cities in Peru.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20529
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_20529_OBJ.jpg