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Title
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Travaxo: Papa Oca Tarpvi Pacha, Dezienbre, Capac Ynti Raymi Quilla
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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 December which was important for the planting of potatoes and other vegetables such as quinoa and oca. There is an indigenous man and two indigenous women illustrated sowing a field with seeds. The man is holding an agricultural tool and pressing his foot down on it to make a hole for the seeds. There is a caption written above his head which reads labrador de papas [potato labourer]. One woman is planting the seeds and another woman behind her is holding a hammer. There is a sun in the top left corner and a moon in the top right corner of the image with the mountainous Andean landscape beneath it. The caption at the bottom of the image reads dezienbre capac ynti raymi [december, first month].
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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:24228
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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_24228_OBJ.jpg
mta_24228_OBJ.jpg