The practice of burying the dead with knotted cords, or quipus, is one that has been observed in Peru from ancient times up until the present but little is known about this tradition. Today, distinctions are made between these funerary quipus and countable quipus, but such distinctions between classes of quipus and connections between modern and inca or pre-inca quipus continue to be enigmatic. This article presents new information about the funerary quipus of Cuspón and the women that maintain this cultural patrimony alive, as well as brings to light an unpublished colonial manuscript about the use of tributary quipus in the same district of Chiquián. Such ethnographic and archival documentation brings to the foreground the various uses of quipu in Cuspón and Chiquián from the past and present, in the hopes of continuing to weave connections between these quipus and traditions and t...