Executed c. 1877, it is held in the collection of the Bank of the Republic and exhibited at the Miguel Urrutia Art Museum, in Bogotá.

Felipe Gutierrez places the scene in an outdoor venue, most likely on a street next to a house of precarious conditions, alluding to the subjects partaking in an economic activity related to antojitos.

Gutierrez returned to Colombia on 2 October 1880 and, on this occasion, he was present for the establishment of the Escuela de Pintura Gutiérrez which was named in his honor.

[3]: 429  In 1880, after Santiago Gutierrez held an exhibit on Mexican art in Bogotá, art critic Ellis de Mansfield highlighted Indias de Oaxaca as an exemplary work of the realist movement and honored Felipe Santiago Gutierrez as the best artist of his time.

[5][6] Indias de Oaxaca originally belonged to Colombian painter and sculptor Dionisio Cortés Mesa, himself an alumnus of Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez,[3]: 430  and was inherited by family members of the artist across multiple generations.