S[eno]ras Principalas, Capac Apo Mama Poma Valca, Que Son Muger de Principales y Segundas · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: S[eno]ras Principalas, Capac Apo Mama Poma Valca, Que Son Muger de Principales y Segundas
Subject: Government; Native Women; Indigenous Peoples; Native Queens; Colonialism; Colonization
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; South America; West Indies
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. After discussing powerful lords, the author discusses powerful women and wives to those lords. This image depicts a powerful woman standing in the center of the frame dressed in luxurious clothing. She is illustrated standing on a rug with frills along the edges. She has a long cloak wrapped over her shoulders and her dress has embroidery at her waist and by the feet. She is wearing earring and a necklace. She holds a hankerchief in her left hand and a rosary in her right. There is writing beside her head that identifies her as, doña juana curi ocllo, coya [Doña Juana Curi Occlo, Queen]. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, rreyna del pirú de las yndias llamada coya [Queen of Peru of the Indies].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23647
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_23647_OBJ.jpg

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