Sesta Calle Coro Tasqve · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Sesta Calle Coro Tasqve
Subject: Coro Tasque; Young Women; Women; Weaving; Spinning; Herding; Livestock; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies
Description: The author explains that there were ten paths for women to follow in the Inca Empire based on age division. This group was called coro tasque [short-haired young girls]. These women were aged from twelve to eighteen years old. Their duties included serving their parents and noble women, learning to spin and weave, and herding livestock. The young girl in the image is depicted with short hair, herding llamas, carrying firewood on her back while also spinning yarn. A small dog is walking by her feet. The caption on the image reads de edad de doze años, ciruan a su padre y a la comunidad, which translates to twelve years old, they serve their father and the community.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20287
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_20287_OBJ.jpg