AS191/KH0209 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
Museum Number:  41.2/6698
Provenance:  Ica
Region:  Unknown 		# of Cords:   7
# of Unique Cord Colors:  1
Benford Match:  0.3773
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   AS191/KH0209
DataFile:
AS191
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. AS190-AS197 were purchased by the Museum in 1969 from Louis Slavitz. Their provenance is near Callengo, Ica Valley. They compare as follows:
    1. AS191 and AS193 are each basically one group; all cords are W; they have no subsidiaries.
    2. AS194 and AS195 have similar colors, construction form, and values. For details see AS194.
    3. AS192 and AS196 use similar colors. Both contain B, BB, and W and the mixtures B:W and BB:W.
    4. The colors used on AS197 (AB, KB) do not appear on the other khipus.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for AS191/KH0209:

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 1129; 1130
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 262