Pide Escrivanias El P[adr]e al Fiscal y Dize el Fiscal, Esta [a]qui Senor, Darete de Escrivuanias y Tinteros una Carga. Dize el Padre, No Busco Eso Hijo que Manana me Yre Luego Daqui · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Pide Escrivanias El P[adr]e al Fiscal y Dize el Fiscal, Esta [a]qui Senor, Darete de Escrivuanias y Tinteros una Carga. Dize el Padre, No Busco Eso Hijo que Manana me Yre Luego Daqui
Subject: Parish Priests; Government; Scribes; Notary; Colonialism; Colonization; Prosecutor; Indigenous Peoples; Christianity
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; South America; West Indies
Description: This image is illustrated in a chapter that discusses the Christian priests in the colonial government in Peru. A Spanish priest is illustrated standing on the right side of the image as he approaches an indigenous prosecutor on the left. The priest is dressed in ecclesiastic adornments and the indigenous prosecutor is dressed in a vertically embroidered unku [nightgown]. The priest approaches the indigenous prosecutor as he wishes to confiscate all writing instruments in his new parish as he feared accusations being written against him. The prosecutor is illustrated handing a scribe’s writing instruments over to the priest.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23585
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_23585_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Parish Priests; Government; Scribes; Notary; Colonialism; Colonization; Prosecutor; Indigenous Peoples; Christianity

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