Sentences with phrase «gather census figures»

Made of colored cotton or camelid fibers, quipus (or «talking knots») played a crucial role in ancient Andean South American cultures as record - keeping or data - collecting devices to gather census figures, monitor tax obligations and trade payments, and mark agricultural changes in seasons; thus, they stand as a form of writing before these regions and cultures were subsumed by Spanish colonial occupation and European systems of time and representation.