Talk:Quipu

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Contents 1 Name of article 2 About the name of the article 3 Missing picture? 4 Color Image 5 Knot theory category?

[edit] Name of article

I was wondering when we'd use quipu instead of khipu... --Merovingian (t) (c) 12:47, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

Yep. English texts I've read always referred to the object as quipu, not khipu. And Wikipedia:Use common names says that we go by the most common name. Quipu gets 67,200 Google hits, as opposed to only 28,300 for khipu. —Lowellian (talk) 17:17, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] About the name of the article

The thing is the word quipu is the Spanish way to talk about the Quechua word Khipu. So one has to choose form which language the loanword is going to be taken. I prefer the first one, that is, quipu. But many American anthropologists use the second one.

[edit] Missing picture?

I get the title "Representation of a quipu" as a subtitle to its own text. Refreshing didn't seem to help. User:83.109.185.167

[edit] Color Image

I don't have Quipus of my own, but I do know that color is fundamental to the process. Does anyone have a higher--quality image for the Commons? Thanks, Gchriss 02:39, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Knot theory category?

I don't think this should be in the knot theory category. Quipus are knots in the colloquial sense of the word but not in the knot theoretic sense of the word. So if no one objects, I'll remove that category. JoshuaZ 20:44, 24 July 2006 (UTC)