Secretario Del Inga I Conzejo, Incap Qvipocnin Capac Apoconap Camachicvinin Qvipoc · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Secretario Del Inga I Conzejo, Incap Qvipocnin Capac Apoconap Camachicvinin Qvipoc
Subject: Lliuyac Poma; Secretary; Officials; Administrative Officials; Quipu; Record Keeping; 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. The official depicted in the image is Lliuyac Poma and he acted as a quipu accountant and secretary to the Inca. They would keep records of everything that happened within the kingdom through their quipus (a threaded device used to record information by knotting the threads in different ways). Lliuyac Poma is depicted in this image holding a quipu with both of his hands. The caption at the bottom of the image reads “secretario” [secretary].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20568
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_20568_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Lliuyac Poma; Secretary; Officials; Administrative Officials; Quipu; Record Keeping; Inca; Inca Empire; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples