Quipu
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Mar 1956
name: label: Donor Name
content: Colegio San Calixto
notes: label: Notes
content: WOOL CORD WITH LOOP IN MIDDLE AND SEED POD AT ONE END AND A POTATO AT THE OTHER.
label: Notes
content: 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.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lake Titicaca / Isla Del Sol, La Paz Department / Manco Kapac Province, Bolivia, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 213594
label: USNM Number
content: E554323-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Quipu
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 70 cm