Cortanle la Cavesa a Atagvalpa Inga, Vmanta Cvchvn · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cortanle la Cavesa a Atagvalpa Inga, Vmanta Cvchvn
Subject: Conquistadors; Conquest; Spaniards; Don Francisco Pizarro; Atawalpa Inca; Inca; Inca Empire; Indigenous; Beheading
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Cajamarca; West Indies; South America
Description: This chapter focuses on discussing the arrival of Spaniards and the Spanish conquest of Peru. This image depicts the conquistadors decapitating the emperor of the Inca Empire, Atawalpa Inca. The conquistadors had the emperor imprisoned and then stole all the gold and silver they could take. Don Francisco Pizarro, a leading conquistador in the Peruvian conquest, ordered that the Inca Emperor be beheaded. There are three unidentified soldiers illustrated in the image aiding in the beheading of the Inca, with a fourth person slightly visible on the far-right side of the image. There is one soldier holding the feet of the Inca down, and another holding the torso down. The soldier decapitating the Inca is using a sword and hammer. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, murio atagualpa, en la cuidad de caxamarca [Atawalpa died in the city of Cajamarca]
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:21953
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_21953_OBJ.jpg