CM009 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Name:   AS072
Original Author:  Carol Mackey
Museum:  Unknown, Unknown
Museum Number:  unnumbered
Provenance:  Purucucho
Region:  Purucucho
# of Cords:   65
# of Unique Cord Colors:  5
Benford Match:  0.7984
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  16 (9, 0, 1, 0,...)
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   CM009
Pendant Pendant Sum
Colored Pendant Sum
Ascher Decreasing Group
DataFile:
CM009

Notes:
Description is recorded in Carol Mackey's 1970 Doctoral Thesis
Information is extracted from Pages 251-254 (Appendix)
Knot Location, and cord length information is conjectured or based on drawings.
Color for Mackey's Pale Blue changed to Grey Green to match other Purucucho recordings
Bibliography:

Bibliography for CM009:

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 9
1988 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook II. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 9
2020 Brezine, Carrie J., and Luis Felipe Villacorta. La colección de khipus del museo de Puruchuco. In Khipus, edited by Cecilia Pardo, pp. 63-69. Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima. 67
1970 Mackey, Carol. Knot Records in Ancient and Modern Peru. PhD dissertation, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. 60; 65-82; 213; 220-223; 251
1976 Radicati di Primeglio, Carlos. El sistema contable de los Incas: Yupana y Quipu. In Estudios sobre los quipus, edited by Gary Urton, pp. 265-354. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima. 307; 352
2024 Thompson, Karen M. A Numerical Connection Between Two Khipus. Ñawpa Pacha, pp.1-22. 20
2005 Urton, Gary. Khipu Archives: Duplicate Accounts and Identity Labels in the Inka Knotted String Records. Latin American Antiquity 16(2):147–167. 155-158
2005 Urton, Gary, and Carrie J. Brezine. Khipu Accounting in Ancient Peru. Science Magazine 309:1065-1067. 1065-1067
2007 Urton, Gary, and Carrie J. Brezine. Information Control in the Palace of Puruchuco: An Accounting Hierarchy in a Khipu Archive from Coastal Peru. In Variations in the Expression of Inka Power, edited by Richard Burger, Craig Morris, and Ramiro Matos Mendieta, pp. 357–378. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington. 365-377
2015 Urton, Gary. The state of strings: Khipu administration in the Inka Empire. In The Inka Empire: A Multidisciplinary Approach, edited by Izumi Shimana, pp. 149-164. University of Texas Press, Austin. 154
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 91; 94