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Title: Pontifical Mundo
Subject: Colonization; Colonialism; Colonists; West Indies; Castille; Peru; Settlers; Settlements
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cuzco; Cusco
Description: This illustration depicts the colonization of the West Indies from the perspective of the author. There are settlements depicted all over the image, and there is writing below the sun which reads, las yndias del piru en lo alto de espana, which translates to the Indies of Peru, above Spain. In the centre of the building that is depicted below that inscription is the word Cuzco. The bottom half of the illustration is identified as castilla en lo auajo de las indias, which means Castille, below the Indies. The building at the bottom of the image has the word Castille written on it.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20126
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_20126_OBJ.jpg