Part of El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno, Depocito del Inga Collca is a fine-line image created by Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala as part of a chapter that discusses Incas and their day-to-day activities and social ordering. This image approaches the subject through an economic lens, focusing on produce storage and bureaucratic authorities.
The painting shows two main characters: to the left, someone identified as Topa Inca Yupanqui; to the right, Apo Poma Chaua, also identified as the administrator. The administrator holds a quipu, a complex Inca communication system consisting of lines and knots that has never been fully deciphered. In the background, we can see a few storage units - collca -, which were fairly common throughout the empire and were used to keep maize, sweet potatoes and peppers, for example.
