Canciones I Mvcica Aravi Pincollo Vanca · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Canciones I Mvcica Aravi Pincollo Vanca
Subject: Music; Festivals; Celebration; Flute; Uanca; Pincollona; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies
Description: This chapter is dedicated to discussing the various celebrations and festivals that would be held in the Inca Empire. This image reflects the importance of music and songs. There are two boys illustrated on the left side of the image sitting on a hill with straw or wheat bales strapped to their backs. They are depicted playing flutes. The author explains that boy’s flute songs were called pincollona. The girls on the right side of the image are depicted nude in a river as they look and point at the boys playing their flutes. The author explains that girl’s songs are called uanca.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20496
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_20496_OBJ.jpg