Bven Cristiano Principal · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Bven Cristiano Principal
Subject: Government; Native Lords; Native Women; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Colonization
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cuzco; Cusco; Lima; West Indies; South America
Description: This image is illustrated in a chapter that discusses the descendants of the Inca and Andean nobles under Spanish colonial rule in Peru and their importance to a revived Andean society. This image depicts a local Andean lord sitting on an unsu [Incan ceremonial seat] with his wife. He is illustrated reading from a book. The Andean lord has a rosary around his neck and his wife is holding hers in her right hand. There are two servants depicted on both sides of the image as they hold umbrellas over the lord and his wife to protect them from the sun. The author praises these Andean nobles for being devout Christians. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, señor y señora de una probincia y a de ser sugeto a este no mas [lord and lady of a province and to be submissive to this no more].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23649
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_23649_OBJ.jpg