Maistros: Los Maistros de Coro y de Escuela Deste Rreyno Tributario · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Maistros: Los Maistros de Coro y de Escuela Deste Rreyno Tributario
Subject: Maestro; School Master; Indigenous Peoples; Christianity; Religion; Colonialism; Colonization
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; South America; West Indies
Description: This image depicts a schoolmaster teaching a group of indigenous children. The schoolmaster is depicted holding a whip in his right hand and a book in his left. The name Francisco de Palacios de Luna, Guanca is written beside the schoolmaster. The children are seated on a small bench as they write down what their schoolmaster dictates. There is a music stand on the left side of the image that has sheet music resting on it. There is a servant on the left side of the image depicted carrying a child on his back. The child has the lower half of his body exposed for the schoolmaster to whip him. The child has tears running down his face. The author explains that the schoolmasters would teach children to read and write so that they can grow up to be good Christians.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23622
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_23622_OBJ.jpg