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Toward the Decipherment of a Set of Mid-Colonial Khipus from the Santa Valley, Coastal Peru

Manuel Medrano, Gary Urton, 2018. Ethnohistory 65(1), 1-23.

Matches six khipus to a 1670 revisita of 132 named tributaries in six ayllus around San Pedro de Corongo: the first cords of 133 six-cord groups total the assessed tribute, and recto or verso attachment divides the tributaries into moieties.

MYS0D4V7T824S7F · mystery · click to copyMInka khipus: the knotted-cord recordsArticleCopy of The six Santa Valley khipusdoi: 10.1215/00141801-4260638Checked against the original0

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The strongest khipu-to-document match and the main evidence for non-numerical labels.

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Medrano, M., & Urton, G. (2018). Toward the Decipherment of a Set of Mid-Colonial Khipus from the Santa Valley, Coastal Peru. Ethnohistory 65(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-4260638
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