quipu in English
noun
1
an ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways.
The quipus of the ancient Incas of Peru encoded a wide range of data about people, land, and crops for the government bureaucracy.
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1. The Inca scribes (known as armantus) used the quipu (knotted ropes) to record and store information about the immense holdings of the vast Inca empire.