AS018/KH0019 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USE
Museum Number:  SA4034
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown
# of Cords:   10 (9p 1s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  2
Benford Match:  0.1599
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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DataFile:
AS018

Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. Construction note: P4s1 is a pendant 21 cm. long attached to the bottom of pendant 4. It appears to be a recent attachment.
  2. Construction note: The color designation W/RM refers to a white cord with thin thread wrapped around it. The thread wrapping forms a.5 cm. wide band from 2.5 cm.-3.0 cm.
  3. This khipu and AS020 are not, to our knowledge, associated, yet they are given identical numbers SA4034 by the owner.
  4. A photograph of this khipu appears in Locke (1923) Plate XL along with a one line description on p. 29.