quipos

Guanches also contained earthenware, wooden vases, triangular seals of baked clay, and a great number of small discs of the same material, strung together like chaplets, which may have been used by this extinct race for the same purposes as the "quipos" of the Peruvians.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

You can talk with the quipos, and tell them that unless they give us our freedom and let us go in safety they'll have a dead king.

Loaded Dice Swain, James 2004

Or rather, because I had no fear of an assaultI was convinced that our ruse had succeeded, and that they were about to communicate with us by means of the quipos.

Loaded Dice Swain, James 2004

I waited, expecting to see a bundle of quipos thrust through the opening, but they did not appear.

Loaded Dice Swain, James 2004

And four attendants had approached the throne, bearing a frame of quipos.

Loaded Dice Swain, James 2004

The hand of the Child of the Sun passed slowly up and down the frame of quipos, betraying a commendable reluctance.

Loaded Dice Swain, James 2004

Evidently the good Pachacamac approved whatever suggestions the royal priest communicated, for he rose to his feet with a solemn grin and strutted majestically to the rear, facing the frame of quipos.

Loaded Dice Swain, James 2004

Mr. Humboldt, whose imagination was naturally full of South America, has conjectured that they might have been used for the same purpose as the Peruvian _quipos_, but they are inconveniently large for that use.

Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham

Pachacamac approved whatever suggestions the royal priest communicated, for he rose to his feet with a solemn grin and strutted majestically to the rear, facing the frame of quipos.

Under the Andes Rex Stout 1930

They were of gold and perfect in form, which convinced me that they had been brought by the fugitives from Huanuco, as, indeed, the quipos also, and several other articles we found, including our golden table service.

Under the Andes Rex Stout 1930