Quipu
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quipu-169-10474156
title:
Quipu
text:
Quipu are recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures in the central Andes Mountains of South America. A quipu usually consisted of cotton or camelid fiber strings, and contained categorized information based on three dimensions of color, order and number. The Inca people used quipu for collecting data and keeping records, for monitoring tax obligations, for collecting census records, for calendrical information, for military organization, and potentially f
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Inca recording system using knotted string
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu
date created:
2003-07-05T12:35:43Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T11:20:08Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Inca_Quipu.jpg","width":625,"height":380}
fields total:
13
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