Damian de Vandera Primer Vecitador General de los Yndios Deste Rreyno, en el Tienpo del Senor Enperador y Rey · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Damian de Vandera Primer Vecitador General de los Yndios Deste Rreyno, en el Tienpo del Senor Enperador y Rey
Subject: Conquest; Conquistadors; Spaniards; Inspection; Inca Empire; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; West Indies; South America
Description: This chapter focuses on discussing the arrival of Spaniards and the Spanish conquest of Peru. This image depicts a Spaniard man wearing traditional European clothing pointing towards an Indigenous woman and her son as he inspects the kingdom. This Spaniard’s name is Damian de la Bandera, and he was the first General Inspector of the kingdom after the Spaniards conquered the Inca Empire. The General Inspector has dialogue written beside him which reads, este es hijo de prencipal [This one is a nobleman’s son]. The mother on the right side of the image replies, caymi cino zapra ynga. Nocap uauay capac apop churinmi [This one señor is the Sapra Inca. He is my own child and the son of a powerful lord]. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, bezita general [General inspection].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:22130
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_22130_OBJ.jpg