AS078/KH0091 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Musee Quai Branly, Paris, France
Museum Number:  71.1964.19.1.2
Provenance:  Hacienda Copara, Nazca
Region:  South Coast, Peru
# of Cords:   27
# of Unique Cord Colors:  5
Benford Match:  0.7971
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   AS078/KH0091
DataFile:
AS078

Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. AS074-AS080 are associated. See AS074 for discussion.
  2. Each pendant on the khipu contains only one knot cluster (either long knots or a figure eight knot). The values, however, range from 0 to 10.
  3. By spacing there are 7 groups. Although the number of pendants per group range from 3 to 6, each group contains 3 consecutive pendants colored W, AB, W.
  4. Considering only the three positions with the same color pattern, for all positions within each group, the following relations hold:

    Group 1 > Group 6 ≥ Group 4 }
                                                             > Group 7 > Group 5.
    Group 1 ≥ Group 2 ≥ Group3 }

Bibliography:

Bibliography for AS078/KH0091:

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 560-561; 578-580
2006 Urton, Gary. Censos registrados en cordeles con ‘amarres’: Padrones poblacionales pre-hispánicos y coloniales tempranos en los khipu Inka. Revista Andina 42:153–196. 165; 170
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 261