AS062/KH0073 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  O. Nunez del Prado, Cuzco, Peru
Museum Number:  4B
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown
# of Cords:   32 (16p, 16s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  2
Benford Match:  0.7804
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. Construction note: At 27.0 cm. there is a knot on this subsidiary. Pendant 6 is slipped through the knot.
  2. This khipu is associated with khipus AS059-AS067. See discussion under AS059.
  3. By spacing, there are 8 groups. Each group has 2 pendants with one subsidiary on each pendant. With the exception of one subsidiary, all groups have the same color pattern: W sub KB, KB sub W.
  4. With the exception of one blank pendant (Pl in group 5), and one broken pendant of unknown value (P2 in group 6), for all groups:
    • 6 ≤ P1 ≤ 9; 6 ≤ P1 + P1s1 ≤ 10
    • 10 ≤ P2 ≤ 15; 14 ≤ P2 + P2s1 ≤ 20
    • 23 ≤ P1 + P1s1 + P2 + P2s2 ≤ 29
  5. Double long knots appear on 4 of the 8 white subsidiaries.

Bibliography:

Bibliography for AS062/KH0073:

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 347-348; 353-355
1981 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 68; 116 (ex.6.1)
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