Inca Empire - Conquistadors Execute the Inka

This image, from Poma de Ayala's chapter on the Spanish conquest and the civil wars, depicts the murder of an imprisoned Inka - "The execution of Atahualpa Inka in Cajamarca: Umanta kuchun, they behead him."  It is drawing 156 (on page 390) 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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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, pages 390 [392].

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