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Interpretive watercolor-and-ink illustration of stone Inca storehouses with thatched roofs arranged on a steep Andean hillside.
Built structures

Qollqa (Inca state storehouse)

Qollqas (also called colcas) were fixed Inca state storehouses built in Andean networks. Their forms, locations and stored goods varied by site; Xauxa archaeology documents a large regional system.

state-storehouses
Xauxa region / Upper Mantaro Valley
Generated watercolor and gouache historical illustration of the small Inca Urpu jar documented as Met object 1978.412.68, with a globular painted body, flared neck, carrying handles, shoulder lug and pointed base.
Equipment

Urpu

Urpu is an Inca ceramic jar with a globular body, high flared neck, carrying handles, shoulder lug and pointed base; museum examples show that size shaped whether a vessel served, carried or held chicha.

Jars, pots and crocks
Peru