Calculations with years and months in the Peruvian quipus / by Erland Nordenskiöld.

  • Nordenskiöld, Erland, 1877-1932.
Date:
[1925]
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Credit: Calculations with years and months in the Peruvian quipus / by Erland Nordenskiöld. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the case of one or two conclusions I had drawn in Part I of this series, I am now not quite so convinced of their cor¬ rectness. The best critique of these results will be obtained continuing to work at the solution of quipus. I am sure that from the day I found that the quipus dealt with astronomical figures I was on the right path, and it is the one I have at¬ tempted to follow in this part. In reading the quipus in Berlin I had the assistance of my wife, the Baroness Olga Nordenskiold. Our sketches of the quipus were then re-drawn by Miss E. Stenberg. The cal¬ culation of one of quipus here reproduced I obtained from Mr Leland Locke, the founder of the modern study of the quipu, and I beg to thank him very sincerely for his kindness, which I have repaid by proving conclusively that this quipu deals with the solar year. My original intention was to publish the results of my quipu studies in two small volumes, but for several reasons I have decided to spread the material over several volumes, the extent of the whole work depending on the material at my dis¬ posal.