Feast of the Inkas - Singing with a Red Llama

This image, from Poma de Ayala's chapter on festivals, depicts a feast where people dance and sing.  It is drawing 124 (on page 320) of his book, The First New Chronicle and Good Government On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615.

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Drawing 124 - "Feast of the Inkas: wariqsa, dance; arawi, song of the Inka. He sings with his red llama" - from Poma de Ayala's book, The First New Chronicle and Good Government On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615, page 320.

The original manuscript - Nueva corónica y buen gobierno - is maintained by the Royal Library in Copenhagen (which is the National Library of Denmark).