Los Comenderos Piden China, Muchacho, Ama, Yanaconas, Labradores, Ortelanos y Pongo, Despenseros de los Yndios · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Los Comenderos Piden China, Muchacho, Ama, Yanaconas, Labradores, Ortelanos y Pongo, Despenseros de los Yndios
Subject: Government; Encomendero; Trustee; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Colonization; Spaniards
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; West Indies; South America
Description: This image is illustrated in a chapter that discusses and criticizes the government and society in Spanish conquered Peru. This image depicts an encomendero [trustee] demanding for more native servants. There are two native children and a man standing in front of the Spanish encomendero as he holds his hand out towards the children. The author criticizes encomerendos for taking advantage of the labour of the indigenous peoples of Peru.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23433
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_23433_OBJ.jpg