* Quipu or Khipu were recording devices used in the Inca empire. It consisted of coloured spun and plied strings from Illa or Alpaca hair or cotton cords with numeric and values encoded by knots in a base 10 positional system.
The quipu rope was what carried messages for the Inca.
A quipu
Khipu (English) Known as talking knot or Quipu (spanish) used in the Inca times. Its a colored spun made of either llama, alpaca or cotton. The spun has numeric value made by knots.
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The Inca had no writing system. Instead, they kept records using a system of knotted strings called the quipu. The lack of a fully developed writing system, however, did not prevent the Inca from attaining a high level of cultural achievement.
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the incas used the quipus to keep records
The Inca's used the quipu to record numbers since they didn't have a form of writing. The quipu is a system of strings and knots used to represent numbers so that the Inca's wouldn't have to write down anything.
A Inca Quipu is a string with many knots used to record information as there was no system of writing during the Inca empire. The strings were often colored to represent something.
As a writing system to record information about the ruler
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Catherine Mutz has written: 'Quipu' -- subject(s): Incas, Quipu, Antiquities
A quipu was used by the Inca civilization as a system of record-keeping and communication. It consisted of colored, knotted strings that conveyed numerical and other information through the position, color, and type of knots. Quipus were used to keep track of population data, tax records, and other administrative information.
They used a group of knotted strings called a quipu. The varying knots in a quipu represented different place values, making it easy to count crops or populations or anything that could be numbered in this way.
Quipu (kwee-pu) a string that the Incas used to record information.