Fraile Merzenario Morva, Son tan Brabos y Justiciero y Maltrata a los Yndios y Haze Trauajar Con un Palo en Este Rreyno en las Dotrinas, No Ay Rremedio · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Fraile Merzenario Morva, Son tan Brabos y Justiciero y Maltrata a los Yndios y Haze Trauajar Con un Palo en Este Rreyno en las Dotrinas, No Ay Rremedio
Subject: Mercedarian Friar; Christianity; Abuse; Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous Women; Colonialism; Colonization; Religious Orders
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; South America; West Indies; Peru
Description: This image depicts a Mercedarian friar named Murúa abusing an indigenous woman. He is illustrated holding a stick in his right hand to beat the woman with. He is ordering her to weave. The woman is depicted squatting as she weaves at a loom. She has a frightened look on her face. The author heavily criticizes Mercedarian friars and Murúa specifically for abusing, robbing, forcing labour, and punishing the indigenous peoples of Peru. He was a prefect of the pueblo in Yanaca in the Aymaraes province and he heavily mistreated the indigenous peoples. This image reflects one of the many ways Murúa had treated the natives.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23613
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_23613_OBJ.jpg