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Title
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Travaxo: Zara Callchai Arcvi Pacha, Mayo, Aymoray Quilia
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Description
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This image is reflected in the final chapter of Ayala’s chronicle where he provides a description of labours and festivals that occur in the rural areas of the Spanish colonial Andes during each month of the Inca calendar year. This image depicts the month of May, which was spent harvesting corn from the corn fields. The sun is shining in the top left corner of the image as a barefooted indigenous man and woman are illustrated gathering the corn. The woman has gathered enough corn to pile it in a bundle and is carrying on her back. The man is illustrated kneeling as he uses a tool to cut the corn from the stalk. There are piles of harvested corn on the right side of the image. The mountainous Andean landscape is depicted in the background with birds flying over top. The caption written below the left leg of the indigenous man reads zegador callchac [corn harvester]. The caption below the image reads mayo, hatun qusqui [May, the great pursuit].
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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:24221
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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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mta_24221_OBJ.jpg