Gvaina Capac Inga, Cadia Espanol · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Gvaina Capac Inga, Cadia Espanol
Subject: Huayna Capac Inca; Pedro de Candia; Spaniards; Conquest; Conquistadors; Colonialism; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies; Castile; Spain; Europe
Description: This chapter focusses on discussing the arrival of Spaniards and the Spanish conquest of Peru. This image depicts Huayna Capac Inca, the ruler of the Inca Empire, sitting on the left side of the image on a small chair. Huayna Capac is illustrated meeting and speaking with Pedro de Candia, a conquistador who had landed on the shores of Santa, Peru on behalf of the Spanish. Huayna Capac is depicted in traditional Peruvian regalia while Candia is dressed in European clothing and has a long beard. Due to the language barrier between the Inca and Candia, the Inca used items to point to in order to communicate with the Spaniard. These items are depicted in between them on the ground. Huayna Capac Inca asks Candia, cay coruncho micunqui [is this gold what you eat?] as he points to a plate of gold. Candia replies, este oro comemos [this gold is what we eat]. Huayna Capac proceeded to give the Spaniard gold and silver and other materials and ordered him to return to his ship. Candia returned to Spain with his treasures. The caption at the bottom of the image reads en el cuzco [in Cusco].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20880
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles
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