AS060/KH0071 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  O. Nunez del Prado, Cuzco, Peru
Museum Number:  6B
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown
# of Cords:   15
# of Unique Cord Colors:  3
Benford Match:  0.8658
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  1 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   AS060/KH0071
Ascher Decreasing Group
DataFile:
AS060

Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. This khipu is associated with AS059-AS67. See discussion under AS059.
  2. Groups are set off by spacing and color. There are 4 groups of 3, 4,4,4 pendants by spacing. In group 1 all pendants are colored YB; the first 2 in group 2 are YB:W and the next 2W; all pendants in groups 3 and 4 are colored W.
  3. All pendant values are 1-8.

Bibliography:

Bibliography for AS060/KH0071:

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 347-348; 349-350
1981 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 68
1970 Mackey, Carol. Knot Records in Ancient and Modern Peru. PhD dissertation, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. 83-99; 213; 224-227
2008 Urton, Gary. The Inca Khipu: Knotted-Cord record keeping in the Andes. In Handbook of South American Archaeology, edited by Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell, pp. 831-843 . Springer Verlag, New York. 835
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 264