Governador De Los Caminos Reales, Capac Nan Tocricoc Anta Inga · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Governador De Los Caminos Reales, Capac Nan Tocricoc Anta Inga
Subject: Royal Roads; Officials; Inspectors; Administrative Officials; Inca; Inca Empire; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; West Indies; South America
Description: This chapter discusses the system of administrative officials in the Inca Empire. This image depicts a scene in which a royal road inspector is being helped by an assistant to physically mark off distances in the road. The author explains that there were six royal roads in the Inca Empire, and they were always governed by an inspector. The inspector is depicted standing in the foreground of the image holding a walking stick in his left hand and pointing to his assistant with his right hand. His assistant is illustrated kneeling in the bottom left corner of the image and holding a stake which is used to determine the width of the roads. There are other royal roads depicted in the background of the image and are marked by large Inca stone structures. One of the roads is identified in the top left corner as “Chocllo Cocha nan.” There is a small structure at the bottom right corner and has a caption that reads “Bilcas Guaman Capac Nan” [royal road of Bilcas Guaman]. The caption at the bottom of the image outside of the border reads “uedor de los caminos” [of the road].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20566
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_20566_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Royal Roads; Officials; Inspectors; Administrative Officials; Inca; Inca Empire; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples

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