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- Quipu (also spelled khipu) are recording devices fashioned from knotted cords historically used by a number of cultures in the central Andes Mountains...
- of the empire, finely-woven textiles, use of knotted strings (quipu or khipu) for record keeping and communication, agricultural innovations and production...
- It was used, among other peoples, by Quechua speakers (who called it "Khipu"), Aymara speakers ("Chinu") and Mapuche speakers ("Püron"). It could possibly...
- 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...
- 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...
- examples listed above: Inka, Wayna Qhapaq, Qollasuyu, Mama Oqllo, Wiraqocha, khipu, tampu, ****ur. This orthography has the following features: It uses w instead...
- are 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...
- tenets, statistics, math, science, "Runa-Simi" language variety of Cuzco, Khipu interpretation, art, music construction, history, agronomy, architecture...
- other enameled surfaces. The Incas used knotted cords known as quipu (or khipu) for keeping records. The typewriter and subsequently various digital word...
- Train 2017 2 The Clue in the Papyrus Scroll 2017 3 The Detour of the Elephants 2017 4 The Shackleton Sabotage 2017 5 The Khipu and the Final Key 2017...