“In the Inca Empire’s heyday, from 1400 to 1532, there would have been hundreds of thousands of khipus in use. Today there are about 800 held in museums, universities, and private collections around the world, but no one knows how to “read” them”
Meche Moreyra Orozco, the head of the Association of Collatinos in Lima, had contacted me out of the blue about a year before our trip to Collata. She wanted to know if I wished to visit her natal village where, she said, two khipus were preserved. In Lima, Meche had seen the National Geographic documentaryabout my research on khipus in the central Andes, and therefore knew that I was an expert on the khipus of the region.
The role of the Collata khipus in 18th-century warfare echoes Salomon’s finding that khipu communications played a part in a 1750 rebellion slightly to the south of Collata. The text of an 18th-century khipu missive used in the 1750 revolt survives, written out in Spanish by a local colonial official, even though the original khipu has disappeared.
According to local village tradition, the first khipu was created in the 18th century by the head of Collata’s leading lineage, which is calledAlluka
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