AS197/KH0215 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
Museum Number:  41.2/6997
Provenance:  Ica
Region:  Unknown 		# of Cords:   11 (9p, 2s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  4
Benford Match:  0.8145
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   AS197/KH0215
DataFile:
AS197
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 are compared following AS191.
  2. By color, the khipu is separated in 2, 2, and 5 pendants: the first 2 are W with KB subsidiaries; the next 2 are KB:W; and the last 5 are W.
  3. If the value of the 4th pendant is assumed to be 342, then:

    P1+P2 = P3+P4+P5+P6+P7+P8.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for AS197/KH0215:

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 1129; 1139-1140
1986 Ascher, Marcia. Mathematical Ideas of the Incas.’ In Native American Mathematics, edited by Michael P. Closs, pp. 261–289. University of Texas Press, Austin. 286
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 262