Soberbioso Criollo o Mestizo O Mulato Deste Rreyno · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Soberbioso Criollo o Mestizo O Mulato Deste Rreyno
Subject: Colonization; Colonialism; Mestizos; Creoles; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; Lima; South America; West Indies
Description: This image is illustrated in a chapter that discusses and criticizes the government and society in Spanish conquered Peru. This image depicts a Criollo man dressed in Spanish attire pressing hit foot on the head of a native man lying on the ground. He is also holding a knife over his head. The author criticizes the Criollo men and women, claiming that they are wicked and assault and rob indigenous peoples while they travel on highways. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, “en los pueblos” [in the pueblos].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23372
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_23372_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Colonization; Colonialism; Mestizos; Creoles; Indigenous Peoples