| 单词 | quipu |
| 例句 | Each night our presence was recorded on the quipus, colored strings tied to a long branch of wood. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The two men recorded this information on the official quipu strings. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The quipu recorders placed intricate knots in the strings to indicate our ages and our purpose for traveling. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Step forward quipu, among many others, to reassure that disappointed viewer: Because it's structured in such a loose and episodic manner, there's an element of hit-and-miss. Les Dawson set for a posthumous return, and an abundance of outrage 2013-02-27T11:44:08Z Right now, check Cecilia Vicuña’s exploration of memory and resilience among native people in her exhibit on Andean quipus, cords marked with knots to record figures and memories. Things to Do in New York: A Free Culture Fix, Thanks to Your Library Card 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The text is the soul, and the book – or scroll, or vellum, or clay tablet or knotted rope in the case of quipu – is the perishable body. Why ebooks are a different genre from print 2013-03-26T08:21:56Z A kind of openwork weaving made of knotted cords, or thread, the traditional Andean quipus found in burials may have been used as calculation instruments or memory recorders. The Precarious Art of Cecilia Vicuña 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Vicuña has used variations on the quipu form repeatedly, and produced a monumental version for the occasion. The Precarious Art of Cecilia Vicuña 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The artist originally proposed a quipu that would descend from the Guggenheim’s crowning sixth-level skylight down into the rotunda. The Precarious Art of Cecilia Vicuña 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Both precarios and basuritas are invented forms, but another that Vicuña has used repeatedly is directly adapted from a pre-Columbian object called the quipu. The Precarious Art of Cecilia Vicuña 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z “Spin Spin Triangulene” will also include Ms. Vicuña’s quipus, which are knotted, weblike creations inspired by a centuries-old Inca system of communication. Coming Soon to the Guggenheim: Words, Words, Words 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z By the end of the project, which ran from 2016 to 2018, the quipu included 18 ropes of thread comprised of countless knots. Art collective AMBOS brings its outreach to Made in L.A. with an interactive, outstretched hand sculpture 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Why might the Spanish have destroyed many quipus? World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z She is perhaps best known for her “quipus,” a sculpture series that reimagines the Andean inscription system of knotted cords. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Instead, they communicated and kept records by means of a system of knots and colored strings called the quipu. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z When the ancient Incas wanted to archive tax and census records, they used a device made up of a number of strings called a quipu, which encoded the data in knots. New Phase of Matter Opens Portal to Extra Time Dimension 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z For numerical information, the Inca created an accounting device known as the quipu, a set of knotted strings that could be used to record data. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The quipu of knotted string was a complex but portable Inca recording device. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Some quipus descend from high ceilings like the bloody entrails of ancient matriarchs; others are nothing more than plaits of grass. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z The quipus were carried around from province to province. 3 Ways Societies Counted Populations Before the U.S. Census 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z “It’s like a knot that’s hard to undo—like quipu,” the Incas’ mechanism for storing census and other data, Potter says. New Phase of Matter Opens Portal to Extra Time Dimension 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z However, the meanings of the colors changed depending on the general purpose of the quipu. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Spanish were reluctant at first to believe that quipus accurately preserved information. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z He said he wished the show had featured one of Vicuña’s monumental works, like the 26-foot quipu exhibited at Documenta 14 that first awakened the art world to the power of her vision. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Compare our account of "the quipu" in Chapter X. The Aztecs seem to have replaced that rude method of making memoranda during the seventh century by picture-writing. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West He's quipu, a copy of one Cortez found in City of Sun. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers Though the Inca had no writing system, they kept records using a quipu, a set of colored strings tied with different-size knots at various intervals. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He ordered his servants to bring the quipus, and as this lord was a native, and a man of good understanding, he proceeded to make the thing clear to me. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Vicuña can’t recall how she was introduced to the concept of the quipu, or even the first time she saw an authentic example in real life. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z The quipu was originally only a means of numeration and keeping accounts, thus: a single knot = 10 a double knot = 100 a triple knot = 1,000 two singles = 20 two doubles = 200 etc. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West Thoroughly interested, Eric took up a pile of colored strings, from the corner and started to convert his week's accounting into quipu. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers The quipucamayoc, officials who knew how to use the quipu, kept records of births, deaths, marriages, crops, and historical events. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z How would you go about translating a quipu? World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z It would be many years before she tried to fashion her own physical quipu, but what she did right away was take note of her vision of “the quipu as an idea, an image.” Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Other methods were knots, ordinarily known by the name quipus which they bear among the ancient Peruvians. Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 By means of the colours and the various knots the Peruvians expressed ideas—it was their method of writing—but the quipus were chiefly used for arithmetical purposes. The Red True Story Book Other quipus showed the produce of the herds in milk, cheese, wool, &c. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests It is related that writing once existed in Peru, but was entirely wiped out, and the Inca records committed to quipus alone. Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs The word quipu is Quechua for “knot,” a metonym for the inscription system of knotted cords developed in the Andes over 5,000 years ago. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z They lacked the art of writing, although they possessed a highly developed system of mnemonic aids in the form of curiously knotted and particolored strings called quipus. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure The messages might be verbal, or conveyed by means of the 'quipus.' The Red True Story Book They explained it to me, and I could, with very little trouble, construe their quipus. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Each sovereign Inca formed an ayllu or "gens" of his descendants, who preserved the memory of his deeds in quipus, songs, and traditions handed down and learnt by heart. History of the Incas Most scholars have focused on the quipu’s administrative function in the Incan empire: Colonial chroniclers describe bureaucrats using quipus to record tribute payments, work schedules, census information, inventories, criminal trials, calendars, routes and ritual sacrifices. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z The wampum used by the tribes of the north Atlantic coast was, in many respects, analogous to the quipu. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Quite as primitive an arrangement as the North American quipus. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 All attempts made in modern times to decipher Peruvian quipus have been unsatisfactory in their results. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests This morning at the dawn of day, Rumi-naui despatched this quipu. Apu Ollantay A Drama of the Time of the Incas Runners crisscrossed the Cordillera delivering quipu messages, and quipu masters kept careful archives in the imperial capital Cuzco. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z The Peruvians adopted a totally different and unique system of records, that by means of the quipu. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Each quipus was in the care of a quiper-carnayoe, or keeper. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Some Indians in the southern provinces of Peru are understood to possess a perfect knowledge of some of the ancient quipus, from information transmitted to them from their ancestors. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests The rulers and priests, however, found that the important records of tribute and taxes could be kept perfectly well by means of the quipus. Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru Scholars have mostly relinquished the dream of “cracking” the quipu code. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Each of these peculiarities represented a certain number, a quality, quantity, or other idea, but what, not the most fluent quipu reader could tell unless he was acquainted with the general topic treated of. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America The Easterns had their cuneiform or arrow-headed symbols, and the Western world has even yet its quipus, and tells its history by the number of its knots. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 The lengths of the strings used in making the quipu were various. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests The "quipu," a knotted reckoning-cord, was in use in Peru and in China. Atlantis : the antediluvian world There’s no Rosetta Stone for quipus because quipus were not “in” Quechua or any other spoken language. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z On the other hand the war quipus, the war wampum, and the war paint were all of this hue, boding their sanguinary significance. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America The African Ishango Bone predates a writing system by some thousands of years; the quipus of the Inca culture are a sui generis record of people, animals, and goods previous to writing. The Civilization of Illiteracy In every town some expert men were appointed to tie the knots of the quipu, and to explain them. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Officers were established in each of the districts, who, under the title of quipucamayus, or "keepers of the quipus," were required to furnish the government with information on various important matters. History of the Conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas Once extracted from their social context — surviving specimens are often “without provenance,” in other words, looted — it’s almost impossible to match any particular quipu to one of the many functions we know they performed. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Officers were established in each of the districts, who, under the title of quipucamayus, Or "keepers of the quipus," were required to furnish the government with information on various important matters. History of the Conquest of Peru For her, the quipu and the ceque — she thinks of them as one system — are as much about the body as they are about the cosmos. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z It, however, seldom happened that they had to read a quipu without some verbal commentary. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests In 1991, she made a quipu that she never displayed, practicing the signature “long knot” and twining two colors of yarn together on some pendants. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z No one today can claim complete quipu literacy, but Andean people still retain elements of the worldview that the quipu helped create. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z The narrative, thus concocted, could be communicated only by oral tradition; but the quipus served the chronicler to arrange the incidents with method, and to refresh his memory. History of the Conquest of Peru In her poem “Entering,” Vicuña venerates “ ‘the quipu that remembers nothing,’ an empty string,” and I’d always understood that line as an expression of mourning for lost Indigenous knowledge. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Something was always required to be added if the quipu came from a distant province, to explain whether it related to the numbering of the population, to tributes, or to war, &c. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests But in the presence of these original quipus, I also saw the plain fact of “empty string” as an open invitation to take up the technology’s expressive potential. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z There was a reciprocal relationship between the quipu system and the way Andean people mapped their environment and organized experience. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z The quipu was a cord about two feet long, composed of different colored threads tightly twisted together, from which a quantity of smaller threads were suspended in the manner of a fringe. History of the Conquest of Peru And then, of course, there’s the long tradition of learning by copying the masters, the same way Vicuña had found her way to her own quipus by loosening and reweaving those ancient knots. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Most of the quipus here alluded to seem to be accounts of the population of particular towns or provinces, tax-lists, and information relating to the property of the deceased. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests The lyrics suggest that there might be as much stubborn mystery in our own past as there is in a forgotten script like the quipu. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z It was possible to destroy the physical quipu but more difficult to erase the traces of a spiritual geography in the minds of Andean people. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z |
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