“Mining the Virgin Mountain: Personifying the Earth in Colonial Potosí”

Supplementary images to the journal article.

Anonymous, La Virgen del Cerro

Oil on convas. 18th century. Museo de la Casa Nacional de Moneda.

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, “I am the support for your columns.”

Illustration in Martín de Murúa, Historia del origen y genealogía real de los Reyes Incas del Perú (1590). Hesburgh Libraries.