Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

5/1/1993 - 9/30/1993

Funding Totals

$4,750.00 (approved)
$4,750.00 (awarded)


Deciphering the QUIPUS: Museum and Archival Studies of Inca Recording Devices

FAIN: FT-38930-93

Gary Urton
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Hamilton, NY 13346-1338)

Research on colonial Spanish documents produced as transcriptions of khipus, the knotted cords the Inka used as record-keeping and messages.





Associated Products

A New Twist in an Old Yarn: Variation in Knot Directionality in the Inka khipus (Article)
Title: A New Twist in an Old Yarn: Variation in Knot Directionality in the Inka khipus
Author: Gary Urton
Abstract: A description of the khipu system and how it was used.
Year: 1994
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/new-twist-in-an-old-yarn-variation-in-knot-directionality-in-the-inka-khipus/oclc/82031326&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat listing
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Baessler Archiv Scientific Journal of the Ethnological Museum of Berlin
Publisher: Reimer-Mann