- Figure 1.2. In this seventeenth-century drawing, a royal Inca mummy and his mummified spouse (lower right) are honored by their descendants. On the left, one attendee drinks chicha while another pours it into a vessel in front of the mummies. The labels yllapa (lightning) and defunto (deceased) are written in front of one mummy’s face. In the background is the open door of a funerary structure, with the bones of ancestors visible inside (Guaman Poma de Ayala 1980 [1615], I:262–263).
17th century drawing of Inca mummy and spouse
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