Learn how to make khipu pendant and subsidiary cords! This video is part 3 of 6 from the "How to Make an Inka Khipu" series, originally made for students in Harvard's General Education Course, Societies of the World 40: The Incas.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 Ply Direction and Color:
Hyland, S.
2014. Ply, Markedness, and Redundancy: New Evidence for How Andean Khipus
Encoded Information. American Anthropologist, 116(3):1–6.
2016. How Khipus Indicated Labour Contributions in an Andean Village: An Explanation of Colour Banding, Seriation, and Ethnocategories. Journal of Material Culture, 21(4):490–509.
