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XVIII. Intemational Congnss of
A1nm·icwni
ts.
'!!
en
la mano derec/¡a
sn congacuclwna,
y
en
la
ysq1tie1·da
un
quitasol,
and
in
his right hand
his
con,c;acucl!ona,
and
in
his
left
a
parasol,
y
s1t manta de encarnado,
y
su camegeta a1'1'iua
colo1·ado,
y
en mecho
(;res
and his flesh-coloured ID<tntle,
and
the upper part of his tunic
red,
in the midst
three
betas
de
toaapo,
y
bancls
of
tocapo,
ancl
en los p1:es.
about the feet.
lo
de aztajo
the
lower
pa.rtof it
aml cla1·o,
y
dos
was light blue,
:;.nd
two
atad&ros
ties
Evidence for the manner in which the author has obtained his information
from official portraits is also given by the following remarks upon Inca Roca:--
" In the right hancl he helcl his son
.
.
. a very beloved son, ancl therefore he did not
loose him because he was very small and under age; the boy's mantle was pink, his tunic black,
with two bands of tocapo, <tncl his llautu red, and the mantle of the said father was a ligbtgreen,
and the under part yellow and blue, and four ties on his feet; he was a stout man and very
strong."
The true rea. on for the cüstom of representing Inca l=toca holding his son by
the hand was quite different. Apparently the story that the chilcl. of this Inca had
been stolen by his enemies, ancl was given up for lost, but that he finally returned
to his father, was unknown to Huanian Poma.
Pachacuti Inca, the great conqueror and organizer, is represented by Huaman
Poma as swinging a sling. There is a portrait of this type, but of Maytac Capac,
in a series of thirteen Incas on the title page of the fifth decade of the
Histo1·ia
general
of Antonio Herrera. On the same title page a helmet is worn by Inca
Urcon, a son of Htúracocha Inca, and by his successors. Huaman Poma employs
the helmet asan attribute of M.'aytac Capac, Inca Capac Yupanqui, Yahuar Huacac,
Htúracocha Inca, Tupac Yupanqui and his two successors. Both agree in giving no
helmet to the first Incas.
o details are given by Huaman Poma of the dress and colour of the
garments of the fifth Coya, Chimbo Mama Caua. Evidently he lmew no picture of
her to supply t he lack.
She had been deposed, because after her marriage to the
Inca she contracted a disease of the heart, which caused her to bite during the
attacks. Her husband therefore obtained permission from bis father the Sun to
take another spouse. Huaman Poma shows her in one of her fits; a servant
hastens to help her.
From the pictnres we leam what Huaman Poma means by the Qtúchua terms
he employs in his descriptions. According to him
Uautu
is a string that encircles
the head of the Inca, and
mascc~
1.1aychct
a fringe fastened on that string, or worn in
front of the
u?na
chu.co,
the helmet. This qtúte agrees with the results of the
investigations of Dr. Max Uhle.
1
Whether
1tc~yoc
ticct,
the "weaving flower," may
be a rather ceremonious epithet for that fringe, or the name of another part of the
head-dress of the Inca, I will not decide. The
pluma
de
quitasol
is a tassel,
Cl'OWned wÚh three featheÚ, the famous
C01'iquenq1oe ticco,
and fastened Oll a littlé
1
llev.
Hist.,
Lima, 1907, vol,
ii.