Sorting the harvest, Inca
May: Work. Time to cut and harvest the maize'. The harvest is sorted, the better part of the crop kept for food, the poorer to be made into chicha, a kind of beer. This is a good month to travel; the roads are clear and there is plenty of grazing land for animals
Picture No
11939113
Media ID
46079561
Size
3000px x 4000px
(5.7MB)
Credit
© The John Meek Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Usage Restrictions
Editorial Use Only
Source
From El primer nueva cornnica y buen gobierno', (The First New Chronicle and Good Government), 1515. Artist: Poma de Ayala, Felipe de Guaman (c. 1550-1616, Quechua/Peruvian). Photograph: John Meek
Date
1515
