AS204/KH0222 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Lowie Museum, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Museum Number:  TK 4/5418
Provenance:  Ica
Region:  Unknown
# of Cords:   20 (12p, 8s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  4
Benford Match:  0.4159
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  1 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   AS204/KH0222
Ascher Decreasing Group
DataFile:
AS204

Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. Construction Note: The main cord (A) is connected to another cord (B) which is color LB but heavier than the LB pendant cord. Another pendant (12) is suspended from cord B. It is possible that cord B is the main cord and pendants 1-11 are actually all subsidiaries of a single pendant cord.
  2. AS201, AS202, AS203, and AS204 are all designated by the museum as TK. This collection is discussed by D. Menzel in Pottery Style and Society in Ancient Peru, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1976.
  3. By spacing and color the khipu forms 5 groups of 2, 3, 2, 2, 2 pendants each. In the first group both pendants are color MB, have no subsidiaries, and are value 0. The next 4 groups are YB, LB (with an additional MB in group 2), have value 0 or 1, and with one exception each have a subsidiary. The values on the subsidiaries are 0, 3, or 4. Their colors are YB or LB or MB. It is the MB subsidiaries that contain the non-zero value
Bibliography:

Bibliography for AS204/KH0222:

Year Author Title Pages
1988 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook II. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 40-42
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 262