quipus

• On the other hand the war quipus, the war wampum, and the war paint were all of this hue, boding their sanguinary significance. —  The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
• Each quipus was in the care of a quiper-carnayoe, or keeper. —  An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
• One has only to look at the history of Spain itself to realize that royal bigotry and priestly intolerance have often crushed new ideas and kept great nations from making important advances Montesinos says further that Tupac Cauri established in Tampu-tocco a kind of university where boys were taught the use of quipus, the method of counting and the significance of the different colored strings, while their fathers and older brothers were trained in military exercises--in other words, practiced with the sling, the bolas and the war-club; perhaps also with bows and arrows. —  Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru
• They explained it to me, and I could, with very little trouble, construe their quipus. —  Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
• Other quipus showed the produce of the herds in milk, cheese, wool, &c. —  Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests

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