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Actions Displays	Ancient Quipu or Peruvian Knot Record Remove from selection Add to selection TitleThe Ancient Quipu or Peruvian Knot Record Author Leslie Leland Locke (author)‎ Leslie Leland Locke (photographer)‎ Charles W. Mead (author of foreword)‎ Place of publicationNew York PublisherAmerican Museum of Natural History Year of publication1923 Paginationvi, 84 p., followed by lix [59] pages of black and white plates IllustrationsIllus., black and white drawings and diagrams, black and white photographs Dimensions19 x 22.3 cm Materialbook Class numberF3429.8.Q6 .L63 1923 NotesDes Pawson Collection Subjectmathematics, Quipu, knots and splices, ropes, Incas Geographical keywordPeru A work on the Incan quipu; the aim of which is 'to examine with considerable care the available authentic specimens', as well as to collate what has been written about the quipu from the time of European conquest to the present day. Contains a cross-referenced bibliography. The first chapter i substantially the material of an April 1912 paper in the American Anthropologist, while the rest is a compilation of other writers.

TitleThe Ancient Quipu or Peruvian Knot Record

Author

Place of publicationNew York

Year of publication1923

Paginationvi, 84 p., followed by lix [59] pages of black and white plates

IllustrationsIllus., black and white drawings and diagrams, black and white photographs

Dimensions19 x 22.3 cm

Materialbook

Class numberF3429.8.Q6 .L63 1923

NotesDes Pawson Collection

Geographical keywordPeru

A work on the Incan quipu; the aim of which is 'to examine with considerable care the available authentic specimens', as well as to collate what has been written about the quipu from the time of European conquest to the present day. Contains a cross-referenced bibliography. The first chapter i substantially the material of an April 1912 paper in the American Anthropologist, while the rest is a compilation of other writers.