Segvndas: Apo Qvicia Villca, Hanan Yauyo, Opa Yauyo · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Segvndas: Apo Qvicia Villca, Hanan Yauyo, Opa Yauyo
Subject: Government; Native Lords; Native Officials; Native Princes; 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 portrait of a noble named Apo Quicia Uillca. He is dressed in Spanish attire and is illustrated holding a rosary in his right hand. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, tiene don solo ellos y merced del enperador y salario prencipales, estos son caualleros, segundas personas de los mayores en la ley deste rreyno [only they enjoy the gift of the emperor’s favours and salary, these are knights, second people of the greatest law in the kingdom].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23640
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_23640_OBJ.jpg