Crossword-Solution: QUIPU
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Quipu | n. | A contrivance employed by the ancient Peruvians, Mexicans, etc., as a substitute for writing and figures, consisting of a main cord, from which hung at certain distances smaller cords of various colors, each having a special meaning, as silver, gold, corn, soldiers. etc. Single, double, and triple knots were tied in the smaller cords, representing definite numbers. It was chiefly used for arithmetical purposes, and to register important facts and events. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “QUIPU”
| Clue | Answers |
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| INCA record | 1 answer |
| Knotty Incan calculator | 1 answer |
| Old Peruvian calculating device | 1 answer |
| Quechuan calculator | 1 answer |
| STRING message | 1 answer |
| device of the Incas used to record information using knotted cords | 1 answer |
| ANCIENT Peruvian calculating device | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
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Sentences with QUIPU (5)
Notation systems (e.g., the quipu, representational drawings on stone or on the ground, or hieroglyphics) that eventually became writing can be classified as design, not lastly in view of their aesthetic coherence.
One variety is red and white.] 36 (return) [ The llanta is the main rope of the quipu, about a yard long.
The _wampum_ used by the tribes of the north Atlantic coast was, in many respects, analogous to the quipu.
Thus each one of the descendants continued to communicate the annals in the order described with a view to preserve their histories and deeds, their ancient traditions, the numbers of their tribes, towns, provinces, their days, months and years, their battles, deaths, destructions, fortresses and "Sinchis." Finally they recorded, and they still record, the most notable things which consist in their numbers (or statistics), on certain cords called _quipu_, which is the same as to say reasoner or accountant.
The messages might be verbal, or conveyed by means of the 'quipus.' A quipu was a cord two feet long, composed of differently coloured threads twisted together, from which were hung a number of smaller threads, also differently coloured and tied in knots.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1970–1971).