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Quipus

open access: yes, 2014
Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt (biography)   +1 more
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Quipus and Witches' Knots [PDF]

open access: yes, 1967
This essay in cultural anthropology provides a comprehensive view of the way primitive people in all parts of the world once utilized knots; mnemonic knots—to record dates, numbers, and cultural traditions; magic knots—to cure diseases, bewitch enemies, and control the forces of nature; and practical knots—to tie things and hold things together.In his ...
Day, Cyrus Lawrence
exaly   +6 more sources

Quipus and Yupanas as Imperial Registers

open access: yes, 2018
The Incas used the quipu, a knotted cord device, for administrative and historical record-keeping. This chapter summarizes the modern scholarship on the quipu, which uses colonial documents and analyses of the construction and numerical composition of surviving quipus.
Gary Urton
exaly   +3 more sources

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