Enterio de Colla Svios · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Enterio de Colla Svios
Subject: Burial; Death; Traditions; Funeral; Tombs; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies; Collasuyo
Description: This image depicts the burial traditions of the people in the Collasuyo region of the Inca Empire. The author explains that the deceased would be buried in fully clothed in an upright-seated position five days after their death. They would be given food and dinner ware for their burial. The deceased in this image is illustrated adorned in garments as they sit in an upright position in front of the ayan otapa [house of the dead]. The figures on the right side of the image are depicted drinking and making liquid offerings to the dead. The caption at the bottom of the image reads enterrio [burial].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20462
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_20462_OBJ.jpg