Object Details
- Donor Name
- Colegio San Calixto
- WOOL CORD WITH LOOP IN MIDDLE AND SEED POD AT ONE END AND A POTATO AT THE OTHER.
- Included with the specimen is a note in Spanish (source is not known): "Los nudos gruesos valen 10 (diez), los delgados valen 1 (uno). Cuando hay dos hileras, la mayor significa lo producido; la menor, la cantidad vendida. Generalmente se ata al final el producto de que se trata; y a veces se ponen dos en la misma cuerda, pero es como si fueron dos cuentas aparte. Estos quippus son de la Isla del Sol de los años 1948 y 1949." Translated: "The big knots are worth ten, the smaller ones are worth one. When there are two threads, the larger one signifies what is produced; the smaller one, the amount sold. Generally they tie the related product at the end; and sometimes they put two [counts?] on the same cord, but it is as if they were two separate accounts. These quipus/khipus are from the Isla del Sol from 1948 and 1949." Also includes a small tag with the number 43.
- Record Last Modified
- 19 Nov 2019
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Accession Date
- 26 Mar 1956
- Accession Number
- 213594
- USNM Number
- E554323-0
- Object Type
- Quipu
- Length - Object
- 70 cm
- Place
- Lake Titicaca / Isla Del Sol, La Paz Department / Manco Kapac Province, Bolivia, South America
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8302719
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3352ddbc5-002a-47d6-81c5-8cc807bb27ff
