Noveno Calle Llvllv Vamra · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Noveno Calle Llvllv Vamra
Subject: Inca Empire; Inca; Babies; Children; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples; Llullu uamra
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies; Peru
Description: The author explains that there were ten paths for men to follow in the Inca Empire based on age division. This ninth group was called llullu uamra [baby]. The group refers to small children aged from one to five years old and were not at an age range where they are able to work yet. The author expresses that these children are cared for and played with by older boys and are raised by their parents. This image depicts a baby crawling on the ground. The caption reads de edad de un año cin prouecho which translates to the age of one, unable to work.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20280
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_20280_OBJ.jpg