This study aims to analyze a series of images in the repertory visual issued in Peru Bishop Baltasar Jaime Martinez of Compañón to 1790, whose common denominator is the illustration with regard to the practice of Chaco and Andean Chacuy understood as a practice the hunting of animals with his hands. It proposes an approach to the visual or pictorial representation, from the very biography of the images. Interest detecting the first of those lives, that is the context of production, which takes place within, rather than on the edges, the Spanish colonial system itself.