One of the most fascinating books on pre-Columbian and early
colonial Peru was written by a Peruvian Indian named Felipe Guaman
Poma de Ayala. This book, The First New Chronicle and Good
Government, covers pre-Inca times, various aspects of Inca culture,
the Spanish conquest, and colonial times up to around 1615 when the
manuscript was finished. Now housed in the Royal Library,
Copenhagen, Denmark, and viewable online at
www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/info/en/frontpage.htm, the original
manuscript has 1,189 pages accompanied by 398 full-page drawings
that constitute the most accurate graphic depiction of Inca and
colonial Peruvian material culture ever done. Working from the
original manuscript and consulting with fellow Quechua- and
Spanish-language experts, Roland Hamilton here provides the most
complete and authoritative English translation of approximately the
first third of The First New Chronicle and Good Government. The
sections included in this volume (pages 1-369 of the manuscript)
cover the history of Peru from the earliest times and the lives of
each of the Inca rulers and their wives, as well as a wealth of
information about ordinances, age grades, the calendar, idols,
sorcerers, burials, punishments, jails, songs, palaces, roads,
storage houses, and government officials. One hundred forty-six of
Guaman Poma's detailed illustrations amplify the text.
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