Principes: Don Melchor Carlos Ynga, Principe, Augqui Ynga · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Principes: Don Melchor Carlos Ynga, Principe, Augqui Ynga
Subject: Native Lords; Native Officials; Native Princes; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Colonization; Government
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; South America; West Indies
Description: This image is illustrated in a chapter that discusses the descendants of the Inca and Andean nobles under Spanish colonial rule in Peru and their importance to a revived Andean society. This image depicts a standing portrait of Don Carlos Inca, a descendent of Huayna Capac, an Inca ruler. He is dressed in Spanish clothing as opposed to indigenous traditional garb. The large caption at the bottom of the image reads, con estos principes habla el senor rrey enperador y le da don, encomienda de Santiago - quiere dezir principe auqui ynga, capac churi en la lay deste rreyno de las yndias. Y todos sus nietos y deciendientes son principes de los yndios en su generacion y lley merced del senor rrey enperador, tienen yndios de encomienda ellos ellas [with the prince, the king speaks to him and gifts him the commission of Santiago. It means that he is prince, son of the powerful in the law of this kingdom of the Indies. All of his grandsons and descendants are princes of the Indians in his generation and they are at the mercy of the king. He has entrusted the Indians.]
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23638
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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