The Inca idea of justice once meant throwing a prisoner into a cell alongside pumas, bears and snakes.
This is one of the many vivid hand-drawn images created by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala for his seminal book Nueva coronica y buen gobierno (New Chronicle And Good Government).
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