Coregidor de Provincias Tocrico Ives Michoc · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Coregidor de Provincias Tocrico Ives Michoc
Subject: Law; Law Enforcement; Tambo Inca; Officials; Adminstration; Inca; Inca Empire; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cuzco; Cusco; West Indies; South America
Description: This chapter discusses the system of administrative officials in the Inca Empire. This image depicts a provincial district official holding a walking stick in his right hand and carrying a small bag on his left wrist. The author explains that these officials were from the lineage of Tambo Inca (this name is written above the official's head) and those of this lineage usually had physical deformities on their ears, hands or feet. This official appears to have a deformity on his ear. These officials were chosen to enforce the law as they were not fit for war due to their deformities.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20560
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_20560_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Law; Law Enforcement; Tambo Inca; Officials; Adminstration; Inca; Inca Empire; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples