Senoras, Cvraca Varmi Maiva, Qve son Muger de la Uaranga y Pisca Pachaca · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Senoras, Cvraca Varmi Maiva, Qve son Muger de la Uaranga y Pisca Pachaca
Subject: Native Women; Native Princesses; Government; Colonialism; Colonization; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; 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. After discussing powerful lords, the author discusses powerful women and wives to those lords. This image represents the women who were married to the kuraka [lords who oversaw one thousand native tributaries] and pisqa pachaka [lords who oversaw five hundred native tributaries]. The native woman is depicted wearing a long dress and holding a spindle in her right hand. There are words written above her head which identify her as, dona juana guaman chisque. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, prensesas y senoras del rreyno de las yndias llamada nusta [princesses and ladies of the kingdom of the Indies].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23648
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_23648_OBJ.jpg