AS112/KH0126 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde,
Museum Number:  VA39385
Provenance:  Pachacamac
Region:  Unknown 		# of Cords:   42
# of Unique Cord Colors:  8
Benford Match:  0.01804
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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DataFile:
AS112
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. The khipu is attached to a wooden bar.
  2. This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1907 with provenance Pachacamac. For a list of these khipus, see UR1097.
  3. The pendant order on the listing proceeds from one end of the bar to the other, goes around the end, and continues on the other side . However, regularities are found if the pendants are read instead from one end of the bar until the single knot on the main cord, and then beginning at the original end on the other side of the bar.

    Table 1

    Side 1--broken groups 3 groups of 7 pendants each (Pl-P20)
    2 groups of 3 pendant each (P21-P26)
    Side 2--broken groups 1 group of 7 pendants each (P39-P33)
    2 groups of 3 pendants each (P32-P27)

    With one exception, the last 6 pendants on both sides have the same color pattern. Also, the 3 consecutive groups of 7 pendants on side 1 share one color pattern.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for AS112/KH0126:

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 680; 750-754
1981 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 96
2006 Pereyra Sánchez, Hugo. Descripción de los quipus del Museo de Sitio de Pachacamac. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica, Lima. 14
2014 Urton, Gary. Quipus de Pachamac. Ministerio de Cultura, Lima. 31; 43
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 123; 261