Setima Calle Pavav Pallac · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Setima Calle Pavav Pallac
Subject: Pauau Pallac; Women; Flower Picking; Flowers; 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 pauau pallac [flower pickers]. These women were daughters of common people that were aged from nine to twelve years old. Their duties included flower and herb picking and aiding their parents with chores. The young short-haired girl illustrated in the image is depicted picking many flowers. The caption on the image reads de edad de nueue años, de la comunidad y ciruan a las prencipales señoras, which translates to nine years old, for the community and they serve the noble women.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20288
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_20288_OBJ.jpg