AS157/KH0173 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  unnumbered
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown
# of Cords:   34 (18p, 16s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  1
Benford Match:  0.801
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  1 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   AS157/KH0173
Ascher Decreasing Group
DataFile:
AS157

Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. By spacing, the khipu is separated into 5 groups of 2, 4, 5, 5, 2 pendants respectively. With the exception of the first group, every pendant in every group has 1 subsidiary.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for AS157/KH0173:

Year Author Title Pages
1999 Arellano Hoffmann, Carmen. Quipu y tocapu: Sistemas de comunicación inca. In Los Incas: Arte y símbolos, edited by Franklin Pease G. Y., Craig Morris, Julián I. Santillana, et al., pp. 215–261. Banco de Crédito del Perú, Lima. 242
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 987-989
1925 Kreichgauer, P. Dam. Bibliograpie: Nordenskiöld: The Secret of the Quipu. Anthropos 20:1193-1194. 1194
1926 Kreichgauer, P. Dam. Das Rätsel der Quipus. Anthropos 21:618-620. 618; 619
1970 Mackey, Carol. Knot Records in Ancient and Modern Peru. PhD dissertation, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. 212
1925 Nordenskiöld, Erland. Calculations with Years and Months in the Peruvian Quipus. Elanders, Gothenburg. 28; 32
1976 Radicati di Primeglio, Carlos. El sistema contable de los Incas: Yupana y Quipu. In Estudios sobre los quipus, edited by Gary Urton, pp. 265-354. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima. 351
1994 Urton, Gary. New Twist in an Old Yarn: Variation in Knot Directionality in the Inka Khipus. Baessler-Archiv Neue Folge 42:271-305. 297
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. 168; 171
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 189; 261