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Title
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Q[ve] Los P[adres] an de Mandar a los Sacristanes que Llame a Misa, Fiestas y Dominigos Dies Canpanadas y Con la Chica, Otros Dies a Misa en Este Rreyno
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Description
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This image depicts an indigenous sacristan pulling on ropes to ring the bells of a small church. There is a larger bell and a smaller bell in the bell tower. The author explains that the sacristan will ring the large bell to call parishioners to church for Holidays such as Easter, Vespers, and on Sundays. He rings the bell ten times, and when the people enter the church, the sacristan rings the bell an additional ten times on the smaller bell. The author explains that before they made an indigenous sacristan rings the bells to call people to mass, officials would go through pueblos themselves and call people to mass, which he believed to be an excuse to rob people’s homes. The author also explains that when people were called to church with the bells, officials would use this as an excuse to go through the pueblos and punish those who did not respond to the bell tolls. He believed that the bell tolls reformed the Inca people into continuing to believe that they are Christians.
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Image Creator
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Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
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Identifier
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mta:23615
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Source Name
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El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
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Image
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