Dr. Jorge Flores Ochoa, Faculty of Anthropology, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad, Cusco
Dr. Ramiro Matos, Curator, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

Colca is a food storage warehouse.

There are storehouses for everything: textiles, tools, weapons, meat storehouses, too. The colcas were used for everything.

So there was some form of redistribution.

We are now inside a colca. The door slightly trapezoidal, well preserved; and this gives us an idea of the dimensions of a colca. Why did they store products, clothes, or weapons? It was precisely to redistribute them among the population.

After the harvest, there were goods arriving from the area and from outside the area as well. Then the state, the Inka or his representative, the designated authority, redistributed the domestic products. So the people were happy.