AS155/KH0171 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA37967B
Provenance:  near Lima
Region:  Unknown 		# of Cords:   9 (6p, 3s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  4
Benford Match:  0.5879
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  1 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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Ascher Decreasing Group
DataFile:
AS155
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1907 with provenance near Lima. For a discussion of them, see UR1130.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for AS155/KH0171:

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 849-850; 978
2005 Ascher, Marcia. How Can Spin, Ply, and Knot Direction Contribute to Understanding the Quipu Code? Latin American Antiquity 16(1):99–111. 102
1994 Urton, Gary. New Twist in an Old Yarn: Variation in Knot Directionality in the Inka Khipus. Baessler-Archiv Neue Folge 42:271-305. 295
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 261