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‖ quipu|ˈkiːpuː, ˈkwɪpuː|
Also quipo, quippu, -o.
[Quichuan quipu knot.]
A device of the ancient Peruvians and others for recording events, keeping accounts, sending messages, etc., consisting of cords or threads of various colours, knotted in various ways.
1704tr. Ovalle's Kingd. Chile in Churchill's Voy. III. 74 They have their quipoes, which is a sort of strings of different bigness in which they make knots of several colours, by which they remember... When they go to confession these quipoes serve them to remember their sins. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. II. vii. 304 The quipos seem to have been a device for rendering calculation more expeditious and accurate. 1853Th. Ross Humboldt's Trav. III. xxvi. 88 These quipos or knotted cords are found in Canada, in Mexico, in Peru, in the plains of Guiana, in Central Asia, in China, and in India. 1870Lubbock Orig. Civiliz. ii. (1875) 43 Even the Peruvians had no better means of recording events than the Quippu or Quipu.
attrib.1830Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 168 History has been written with quipo-threads, with feather pictures, with wampum-belts. 1845― Cromwell (1871) I. Introd. 4 Monumental stoneheaps and Quipo thrums to keep record by.
b. transf. and fig.
1781Mrs. Delany's Corr. Ser. ii. II. 64, I believe you would contrive to knot them some quipos of kind remembrance. 1885Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Chr. Kirkland III. iii. 83 Marian Evans, whose first knot in the quipos of her fame was made by this work. |