Fiesta de Los Ingas Varicza Aravi Del Inga Canta Con Sv Pvca Llama · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Fiesta de Los Ingas Varicza Aravi Del Inga Canta Con Sv Pvca Llama
Subject: Dance; Music; Festivals; Celebration; Llama; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; West Indies; South America
Description: This chapter is dedicated to discussing the various celebrations and festivals that would be held in the Inca Empire. This image depicts a festival in which the Inca king would dance and sing for a reddish-brown llama. The llama is depicted on the left side of the image with a rope that’s wrapped around its head tied to a peg in the ground. The words puca llama [reddish-brown llama] are written on the neck of the llama. The letters y-y are written in front of the Inca’s mouth, which are the sounds he would sing to the llama. There is a crowd of people standing behind the Inca who are also participating in the festivities. The caption haucay pata [main square, Cusco] is written at the bottom of the image to identify the location.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20511
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_20511_OBJ.jpg