Terzero Calle Rocto Macho · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Terzero Calle Rocto Macho
Subject: Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples; Rocto Macho; Inca Empire
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Cuzco; South America; West Indies; Peru; Cusco
Description: The author explains that there were ten paths for men to follow in the Inca Empire based on age division. This third path was called the rocto macho [deaf old men], which was for people who were ages eighty to around 150 years old. The author explains that this group of people were not capable of much except for eating and sleeping and were exempt from all military services. The old man depicted in the image is illustrated walking with a cane. The caption at the bottom of the image reads “de edad de ochenta años biejo sordo rreserbado del todo durmilon” which translates to “eighty years old, deaf old man exempt from service, sleeper.”
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20272
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles; Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_20272_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples; Rocto Macho; Inca Empire