Frank Salomon
Ethnographic Director: the John V. Murra Professor of Anthropology,
University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ph.D. Cornell University 1986.
His book The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian
Village (Duke University Press, 2004) is the first monographic study
of patrimonial khipus. It deals with Tupicocha, a village in
Huarochirí. The Spanish translation was published in 2006 as
Los Quipocamayos (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and Instituto Frances
de Estudios Andinos, Lima).
Frank Salomon
Víctor Falcón Huayta
Archaeological Director: Staff Archaeologist of the Subdirectorate
for Research at the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology,
and History, Lima; COARPE N° 040111. Licenciatura in Archaeology,
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos 2001. He has published on
several archaeological sites including Playa Grande and Punkurí,
and he operates the consulting firm Arqueostudio.
Víctor Falcón Huayta
Carrie Brezine
Specialist on textile structures and computation: In 1993 Carrie received
her BA in mathematics and was trained in Andean textile arts by Edward
Franquemont. She currently designs software and conducts khipu analysis
for the Harvard Khipu Data Base Project under the direction of Dr. Gary
Urton (at left in photo), where she is a Ph.D. student.
Carrie Brezine with Dr. Gary Urton
Rosa Choque Gonzáles & Rosalía Choque Gonzáles
Conservators and Restorers: The Choque sisters work as a team. Both members
of Centro Mallqui, based in Hilo and directed by Dr. Sonia Guillén. They
collaborated in the restoration of the Laguna de los Cóndores mummies and
khipus, and in the care of many prehispanic textiles thanks to support from
the Bioanthropology Foundation.
Rosa Choque Gonzáles & Rosalía Choque Gonzáles
Renata Peters
Conservator-Museologist: Newly named Reader at the Institute of
Archaeology, University College, London UK. A Brazilian national,
she was Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American
Indian in Washington DC from 2003-04 and specializes in
community-oriented museology.
Renata Peters