By color, subsidiary placement, and knot form the khipu is in two parts. The first part consists of 3 groups of 3 pendants each. Each of these nine pendants has 1 white subsidiary and two positions of unit knots. The pendants are associated into groups by color: 3 W, 3 KB:W, 3 YB. The second part consists of 4 pendants of color YB with values 10-19 followed by 4 pendants of color W all with value 0.
