AS195/KH0213 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
Museum Number:  41.2/6703
Provenance:  Ica
Region:  Unknown
# of Cords:   7 (1p, 6s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  4
Benford Match:  0.4842
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   AS195/KH0213
DataFile:
AS195

Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. Construction note: The main cord is finished with a cotton bulb that is 2.0 cm. in cross-section.
  2. AS190-AS197 were purchased by the Museum in 1969 from Louis Slavitz. Their provenance is near Callengo, Ica Valley. They are compared following AS191.
  3. AS195 and AS194 are remarkably similar. See AS194 for details.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for AS195/KH0213:

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. 1129; 1135-1136; 1137
1981 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 15; 68
2005 Ascher, Marcia. How Can Spin, Ply, and Knot Direction Contribute to Understanding the Quipu Code? Latin American Antiquity 16(1):99–111. 102
2014 Mamaní, José Luis. Inca Quipu: elementos. Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Avda, Bolivia. 52
2024 Thompson, Karen M. A Numerical Connection Between Two Khipus. Ñawpa Pacha, pp.1-22. 20
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) 290-291
2005 Urton, Gary. Khipu Archives: Duplicate Accounts and Identity Labels in the Inka Knotted String Records. Latin American Antiquity 16(2):147–167. 149
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 262