It, however, seldom happened that they had to read a quipu without some verbal commentary.
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.
The lengths of the strings used in making the quipu were various.
I read thy secret on the moon, As if upon the Quipu knots; And what thou wouldst most surely hide, Is plain to me as all the rest.
They were called Quipucamayocuna, or knot-officers; but although they attained great facility in their work, they were seldom able to read a quipu without the aid of an oral commentary.
According to Tylor, "the quipu is a near relation of the rosary and the wampum-string.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quipu" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
