Caciqve de Mil In[di]os, Qvaranga Cvraca, Paitan Ano[lla] Lucana · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Caciqve de Mil In[di]os, Qvaranga Cvraca, Paitan Ano[lla] Lucana
Subject: Government; Native Officials; Native Lords; Cicaques; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Colonization
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cuzco; Cusco; 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. This cicaque [native lord] is illustrated standing in the center of the image dressed in Spanish attire and holding a rosary in his right hand. The author explains that these officials were responsible for overseeing and caring for one thousand native tributaries on behalf of the Spanish king. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, tiene don y rreserbado por el enperador y ley deste rreyno curacas, caualleros particulares, deste rreyno, que no le a de faltar un yndio de mil tributarios y aci se dize de la uaranga en ellos sollo y en acauando lo dexa al mayor hijo [he has a gift reserved by the emperor and law of this kingdom, magistrates, private knights of this kingdom].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23641
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_23641_OBJ.jpg