Sacramento del Ma[trimoni]o · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Sacramento del Ma[trimoni]o
Subject: Parish Priests; Government; Sacraments; Matrimony; Christianity; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Colonization
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; West Indies; South America
Description: This image is illustrated in a chapter that discusses the Christian priests in the colonial government in Peru. This image depicts the first sacrament, holy matrimony. There is a Spanish priest in the centre of the image performing a marriage between an indigenous man and woman. The priest is adorned in ecclesiastic ceremonial garb and is joining the right hands of the couple with his left. The indigenous man is wrapped in a cloak and the woman is wearing a headdress and a long dress with designs on the bottom.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23583
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_23583_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Parish Priests; Government; Sacraments; Matrimony; Christianity; Indigenous Peoples; Colonialism; Colonization