AS085/KH0098 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Musee d Ethnographie,,
Museum Number:  9570
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown 		# of Cords:   45 (42p, 3s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  5
Benford Match:  0.06258
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   AS085/KH0098
DataFile:
AS085
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. The khipu is in 2 parts separated by a large space along the main cord.
    1. Part I contains 3 groups of 12 pendant cords each. The 3 groups are separated by space; each repeats the same color pattern; each has only one subsidiary and it is on the last pendant in the group; all cords are blank ({)or have value 0).
    2. Part II contains 2 groups of 3 pendant cords each. The groups are separated by space and each repeats the same color pattern. In contrast to Part I, the cords in Part II are not blank.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for AS085/KH0098:

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 612-614
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 261