Illustrations from La primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno

Also referred to as Nueva corónica y buen gobierno; translated as
The First New Chronicle and Good Government

Written and illustrated 1587–1615

For illustrations of life in the Inca empire, many modern history books include the drawings of Felipe Huaman (often spelled Guaman) Poma de Ayala (c. 1535–c. 1615). Poma was the author and artist responsible for La primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno (The First New Chronicle and Good Government) a 1,200-page account of the history and life of the Andean peoples who lived in the Inca empire before and after the Spanish conquest. The work was completed in 1615 and included 398 drawings. Poma's manuscript, though lost to historians for centuries, is now known as one of the most unusual and remarkable documents to be written about the Inca empire...