結けつ縄じょう文も字じ

noun

knotted cord records; quipu

Historical term for a system of recording information using knotted strings, most famously associated with the Inca quipu.

• インカ帝てい国こくでは、結けつ縄じょう文も字じが行ぎょう政せい記き録ろくに使つかわれていた。

  In the Inca Empire, quipu were used for administrative records.

• 結けつ縄じょう文も字じは、縄なわの結むすび方かたや色いろで情じょう報ほうを表あらわした。

  Quipu represented information through the way the cords were knotted and their colors.