Alcaldes: Como Le Castiga el Coreg[id]or al Pobre del Alcalde Hordenario de su Magestad · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Alcaldes: Como Le Castiga el Coreg[id]or al Pobre del Alcalde Hordenario de su Magestad
Subject: Government; Native Officials; Corregidor; Magistrates; Mayors; Colonialism; Colonization; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; West Indies; South America
Description: This image depicts a mayor of a local indigenous town standing on the left side of the image ordering a black slave to whip a magistrate. The magistrate is being punished for falling two eggs short of his tribute. The author criticizes the mayor for shamefully punishing the magistrate without the justice of God. The dialogue written by the mayor’s mouth reads, dale [go on!]. The dialogue written by the slave’s mouth reads, tray dos guebos que falta [two eggs are missing]. The native magistrate, who is illustrated on the right side of the image tied to a post with rope, replies, ay, por amor de dios [Oh for the love of God]. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, en este rreyno [in this kingdom].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23696
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_23696_OBJ.jpg