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Original Author: Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum: Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Germany
Museum Number: VA16138(A)
Provenance: Between Ica and Pisco
Region: Unknown
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# of Cords: 53 (35p, 18s)
# of Unique Cord Colors: 4
Benford Match: 0.9466
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...): 31 (18, 1, 10, 2,...)
Similar Khipu: Previous (AS210) Next (AS185)
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AS159
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Ascher Databook Notes:
- This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1904 with provenance between Ica and Pisco. For a discussion of them, see UR1098.
- By spacing, there are 8 groups with different numbers of pendants. There are much larger spaces on the main cord between groups 6-7 and 7-8 than there are between others. The only consistent colors are in the 3 groups with 7 pendants each (groups 1, 6, and 8). Group 8 is unified: all pendants are B. Groups 1 and 6 both have the pattern X, 4B:W, 2X where X=W in group 1 and X=B in group 6.
- Several of the pendants have multiple unit knots so that there are 2 distinct values in some positions. (See, for example, P14.)
- The value on the first pendant in group 6 is the sum of the other pendants in the group. Similarly, the value on its subsidiary is the sum of the values of the other subsidiaries in the group.
- The sum of the 2 pendant values in group 5 is 100 & 3. The sum of all pendant values in groups 6 and 8 is also 100 & 3.
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| Bibliography: |
Bibliography for AS159/KH0175:
| Year |
Author |
Title |
Pages |
| 2009 |
Artzi, Bat-Ami. |
The secret of the knot: khipu No. 936 from the Maiman collection. Masters thesis, Hebrew University. |
50 |
| 1978 |
Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. |
Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. |
687-689; 992-995 |
| 1981 |
Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. |
Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. |
68; 89 |
| 2020 |
Hyland, Sabine. |
Subject Indicators and the Decipherment of Genre on Andean Khipus. Anthropological Linguistics 62(2):137-158. |
144 |
| 2024 |
Milillo, Lucrezia. |
Inka Khipus, Thread Wrappings and Subject Markers. In IX International Conference on Pre-Columbian and Amerindian Textiles / 9th International Conference on Pre-Columbian and Amerindian Textiles, Museo delle Culture, Milan, 2022, pp. 146-161. Zea Books, Lincoln, Nebraska. |
153 |
| 2004 |
Concordancias y afinidades en archivos de registros de Khipus procedentes de Chachapoyas e Ica, Perú = Matching accounts in the Khipu archives of Chachapoyas and Ica, Peru. In: Identidad y transformación en el Tawantinsuyu y en los Andes coloniales : perspectivas arqueológicas y etnohistóricas / Peter Kaulicke, Gary Urton y Ian Farrington, editores. Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. |
Vol. 3, p. 289-303. (Boletín de arqueología PUCP ; no. 6-8) |
292 |
| 2005 |
Urton, Gary. |
Khipu Archives: Duplicate Accounts and Identity Labels in the Inka Knotted String Records. Latin American Antiquity 16(2):147–167. |
149-150; 151; 167 |
| 2017 |
Urton, Gary. |
Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. |
261 |
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