Learn how to signify numbers with khipu knots! This video is part 4 of 6 from the "How to Make an Inka Khipu" series, originally made for students in Harvard's General Education Course, Societies of the World 40: The Incas. The full series of videos teaches you how to construct a basic Inka khipu using a variety of numerical and non-numerical signs available to the Inka.
Further General Reading about Khipus/Quipus:
Books:
Ascher, M. and R. Ascher
1997. Mathematics of the Incas: Code of the Quipu. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications.
Urton, G.
2003. Signs of the Inka Khipu. Austin: University of Texas Press.
2017. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press.
Websites:
Harvard Khipu Database: khipukamayuq.fas.harvard.edu
Further Reading about Signifying Numbers on Khipus:
Locke, L. L.
1923. The Ancient Quipu or Peruvian Knot Record. The American Museum of Natural History.
