Quipu (/ˈkiːpuː/ KEE-poo), also spelled khipu, are recording devices fashioned from knotted cords. They were historically used by various cultures in...

had a full X.500 and LDAP directory called QUIPU (incorrectly pronounced kwip-ooo by the project). Quipu implemented a DSA and a Directory User Agent...

Code of the Quipu is a book on the Inca system of recording numbers and other information by means of a quipu, a system of knotted strings. It was written...

records called quipus. Locke's most prominent work, The Ancient Quipu or Peruvian Knot Record (1923), demonstrated how the Inca tied knots on quipu cords using...

"narrations". The quipu controlled every economic part of the large empire. Those in charge of keeping the documentation via the quipu were called quipucamayocs...

unifying theme across her diverse body of work, among which her fibre art quipus, knotted or unknotted strings, palabrarmas and precarios, made from natural...

all corners of the empire, finely-woven textiles, use of knotted strings (quipu or khipu) for record keeping and communication, agricultural innovations...

textile piece that the excavators have labelled a quipu. They write that the artifact is evidence that the quipu record keeping system, a method involving knots...

Instead, their societies used the quipu, a system of knotted and colored strings, to convey information. Few quipus survive and they have never been fully...

can be mainly characterized by its usefulness in the economic field. The quipus and yupanas are proof of the importance of arithmetic in Inca state administration...

forebears. Since the Incas did not have a written language, but instead had Quipus to record, it is difficult to determine the type of educational system the...

used. Note the use of zero at the beginning and end of the two cycles. The quipu of the Incas was a system of colored knotted cords used to record numerical...

are actually writing. The Vinča symbols appear to be proto-writing, and quipu may have recorded only numerical information. There are doubts that the...

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and write in Castilian, but his work was written in Quechua. The use of Quipu was banned by the Spanish, and in order to preserve their work, many Inca...

decipherments apparently show that linguistic usage of Quipus followed a logosyllabic pattern. Quipu Olmec Hieroglyphs, c. 1000 BC – 400 BC, possibly the...

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the orbit of Venus. The Incan Empire ran a large command economy using quipu, tallies made by knotting colored fibers. Knowledge of the encodings of...

assumed not to have influenced Old World numeral systems.[citation needed] Quipu, a knotted cord device, used in the Inca Empire and its predecessor societies...

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Reminiscences of this ancient story are present in Inca legends written on golden quipu, which only Zia can read. This triggers an obsessive quest for the Cities...

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Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 1998. ISBN 9781556590887. Quipu. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 2005. ISBN 9781556592263...

artefacts produced by the Indus Valley Civilization on the Indian subcontinent. Quipu (15th century AD), a system of knotted cords used as mnemonic devices by...

States portal Economy of the Iroquois Great Law of Peace Hiawatha Belt Quipu – Quechua recording devices made of knotting and dyed strings Shell money...

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during censuses and other numeric information as well as non-numeric data on quipus, strings from llama or alpaca hair or cotton cords with numeric and other...

History Ancient Babylonian Post-classical Cistercian Mayan Muisca Pentadic Quipu Rumi Contemporary Cherokee Kaktovik (Iñupiaq) By radix/base Common radices/bases...

History Ancient Babylonian Post-classical Cistercian Mayan Muisca Pentadic Quipu Rumi Contemporary Cherokee Kaktovik (Iñupiaq) By radix/base Common radices/bases...