Del Inga Anta Caca Aravai Castigos de Virgenes · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Del Inga Anta Caca Aravai Castigos de Virgenes
Subject: Punishment; Justice; Hanging; Death; Virgins; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies
Description: This chapter is dedicated to discussing the justice and punishment systems of the Inca Empire. The author discusses five methods of punishment in detail, and this image represents the fourth punishment. The author explains that male and female rapists, as well as those who consented, would be punished to protect the virtue of the virgin youth in the Inca Empire. They would be hanged by their hair on an anta caca [stone gallow] and left to die. This image depicts both a man and woman with a rope tied around their hair as they hang over the stone behind them. They have tears running down their face as a figure on the right holds the rope. The caption written by the two hanging figures reads tasquecona uacllispa huchallicoccuna [young ones who transgressed]. The writing on the stone reads anta caca cobre pena [stone gallow causes sorrow].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20477
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_20477_OBJ.jpg