Chakana (Inca Cross) Mother Pearl Earrings

The Quipu, or khipu, was used by the Incas and Andean cultures to record and convey information. This ingenious device, without a written language, utilized colors, strings, and knots at different heights to record various data, including dates, statistics, accounts, and even abstract folk stories and poetry.

Butterflies are beautiful and have mystery, symbolism and meaning and are a metaphor that represents spiritual rebirth, transformation, change, hope and life.