QUIPU

Many of you have been wondering about my studies here at Michigan Tech. What kinds of classes do I have, what kind of projects we do, what my papers are about... Well for your delight I am going to share one of my projects from this semester. It's a QUIPU ! It is an ancient Incan communication code system for transferring information in their community. So instead of writing a 10-15 page paper about it we got to make our own. We were asked to create our own code system and create a different sets of knots. I did mine for my weekly activities (classes and tennis). The minimum time we had to keep record was a month. So each of my day has its own string and each string has different types of knots (which all mean different things). I also used a bit of color to point out the most important things (such as weekends haha) on my Khipu.

Sooo.. here it is!

Riina