Guamán Poma de Ayala: Nuevea Corónica y Buen Gobierno, ca. 1615

Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala (ca. 1550–1615), Cristianos Cazados, Peru, um 1615; Bildquelle: Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala: Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno, Peru um 1615, S. 835, Digitalisat: Det Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 2232 4, http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/835/en/text/. Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala (ca. 1550–1615), Fraile Dominico MVI, Peru, um 1615; Bildquelle: Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala: Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno, Peru um 1615, S. 659, Digitalisat: Det Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 2232 4, http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/659/en/text/?open=id2974085.

The drawings demonstrate the ambivalent attitude to the mission: While the drawing on the left shows the reception of Christianity (a married Christian-Indian couple kneel in prayer before the cross), the drawing on the right depicts criticism of the mission personnel (an Indian woman with her child, who is working at a loom, is mistreated by an "irascible and arrogant" Dominican monk).

Left: Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala (ca. 1550–1615), Cristianos Cazados, Peru, ca. 1615; source: Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala: Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno, Peru ca. 1615, p. 835, digitalised by The Royal Library, Denmark, GKS 2232 4, http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/835/en/text/.

Right: Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala (ca. 1550–1615), Fraile Dominico MVI, Peru, ca. 1615; source: Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala: Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno, Peru ca. 1615, p. 659, digitalised by The Royal Library, Denmark, GKS 2232 4, http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/659/en/text/.