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Quipu (also
spelled khipu) are
recording devices fashioned from
strings historically used by a
number of
cultures in the
central Andes Mountains of South...
- of the empire, finely-woven textiles, use of
knotted strings (quipu or
khipu) for
record keeping and communication,
agricultural innovations and production...
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khipus and
hybrid khipu-alphabetic
texts in the
Central Andes and is
credited with the
first potential phonetic decipherment of an
element of a
khipu...
- It was used,
among other peoples, by
Quechua speakers (who
called it "
Khipu"),
Aymara speakers ("Chinu") and
Mapuche speakers ("Püron"). It
could possibly...
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examples listed above: Inka,
Wayna Qhapaq, Qollasuyu, Mama Oqllo, Wiraqocha,
khipu, tampu, ****ur. This
orthography has the
following features: It uses w instead...
- tenets, statistics, math, science, "Runa-Simi"
language variety of Cuzco,
Khipu interpretation, art,
music construction, history, agronomy, architecture...
- Stirling,
Pizarro Narrative Threads:
Accounting and
Recounting in
Andean Khipu Martín Rubio, María del Carmen: Juan de Betanzos: El gran
cronista del Imperio...
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messenger sticks (used by, e.g.,
Inuit tribes), the
knotted cords,
khipus or quipus, as used by the Inca. Gr****
historian Herodotus (c. 484 – c. 425...
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Meeting of the Times,
where the Inca
meets the city's
mayor to
exchange the
khipu representing the
three powers:
munay (to want),
yachay (to know), and llankay...
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other enameled surfaces. The
Incas used
knotted cords known as
quipu (or
khipu) for
keeping records. The
typewriter and
subsequently various digital word...
