AS207B/KH0226 - Catalog Information

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Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum of Science, Buffalo,
Museum Number:  C14459
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown

# of Cords:   28 (17p, 11s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  3
Benford Match:  0.8494
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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AS207B/KH0226

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Notes:

Ascher Databook Notes:

By color, subsidiary placement, and knot form the khipu is in two parts. The first part consists of 3 groups of 3 pendants each. Each of these nine pendants has 1 white subsidiary and two positions of unit knots. The pendants are associated into groups by color: 3 W, 3 KB:W, 3 YB. The second part consists of 4 pendants of color YB with values 10-19 followed by 4 pendants of color W all with value 0.

Bibliography:

Bibliography for AS207B/KH0226:

Year	Author	Title	Pages
1988	Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher.	Code of the Quipu: Databook II. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan.	66-67; 69
2017	Urton, Gary.	Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin.	262