Governador De Los Pventes Deste Reino Chaca Svioioc Acos Inga, Gvambo Chaca · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Governador De Los Pventes Deste Reino Chaca Svioioc Acos Inga, Gvambo Chaca
Subject: Bridge; Bridge Keepers; Administrative Officials; Officials; Inca; Inca Empire; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cuzco; Cusco; South America; West Indies
Description: This chapter discusses the system of administrative officials in the Inca Empire. This image depicts an official overseeing the Huambo bridge. The author explains that all bridges within the Inca Empire were required to be overseen by an official. The man depicted in the image, Acos Inca, oversaw all the bridges. Acos Inca is illustrated standing on the left side of the image holding a stick in his right hand overlooking the Huambo bridge as a traveler walks across. The cable bridge is suspended over a long winding river surrounded by an Andean landscape. The caption at the bottom of the image reads “uedor de puentes” [of the bridges].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20567
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_20567_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Bridge; Bridge Keepers; Administrative Officials; Officials; Inca; Inca Empire; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples