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Title
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Travaxo: Zarap Tvta Cavai Mitan, Febrero, Paucar Uaray Quilla
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Description
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This image is reflected in the final chapter of Ayala’s chronicle where he provides a description of labours and festivals that occur in the rural areas of the Spanish colonial Andes during each month of the Inca calendar year. This image depicts the month of February, which was an important month for ensuring the safety of corn fields from hungry animals. There is an indigenous woman on the right side of the image standing behind the corn field holding a drum in her left hand and a stick to beat the drum with in her right. She is using the drum to scare animals away from the corn field at night. The moon in the top left corner reflects that it is night in the image. The writing above and beside the indigenous woman reads “espanta zurrillas de noche, oxeador de de noche, tuta zara uacaychac” [scares skunks at night, scouts and protects the corn at night]. In the corn field, there is an animal identified as a “zorra” [fox], “benado” [deer], and in the bottom right corner, a “zorrilla” [skunk]. There is an unidentified bird next to the skunk. There is an indigenous woman in the bottom left corner of the image harvesting the corn with an agricultural device in her hands. The caption at the bottom of the image reads “febrero, paucar uaray” [february, third month].
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Image Creator
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Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
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Identifier
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mta:24195
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Source Name
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El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
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Image
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Subject
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Indigenous Peoples
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Colonialism
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Agriculture
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Corn Field
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February
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