Catalog: KH0008 (AS007)

Section Information
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Aliases:   AS007
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (Smithsonian),
Museum Number:  17/8825
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown
# of Groups & Cords:   37 Groups, 171 Cords - (121p, 25t, 25s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  15
Benford Match:  0.9252
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  118 (55, 29, 30, 2,...)
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Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0008 (AS007):

Year Author Title Pages
1972 Ascher, Marcia and Robert Ascher. Numbers and Relations from Ancient Andean Quipus. Archive for History of Exact Sciences 8(4):288–320. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41133342 307-312
1981 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 89
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. 353