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though this article specifically deals with the most familiar Inca system, and knotted string records are often generically referred to in English as quipus after the Inca term.

A quipu usually consisted of colored, spun, and plied thread or strings made from cotton or camelid fiber.

For the Inca, the system aided in collecting data and keeping records, ranging from monitoring tax obligations, properly collecting census records, calendrical information, and military organization. Objects that can be identified unambiguously as quipus first appear in the archaeological record in the first millennium AD.

They subsequently played a key part in the administration of the Kingdom of Cusco and later Tawantinsuyu, the empire controlled by the Incan ethnic group, flourishing across the Andes from c. As the region was subsumed under the invading Spanish Empire, the use of the quipu faded from use, to be replaced by European writing systems.

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However, in several villages, quipu continued to be important items for the local community, albeit for ritual rather than recording use.

It is unclear as to where and how many intact quipus still exist, as many have been stored away in mausoleums, 'along with the dead.'"The khipu were knotted-string devices that were used for recording both statistical and narrative information, most notably by the Inka but also by other peoples of the central Andes from pre-Inkaic times, through the colonial and republican eras, and even – in a considerably transformed and attenuated form – down to the present day." In the early years of the Spanish conquest of Peru, Spanish officials often relied on the quipus to settle disputes over local tribute payments or goods production.

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