Catalog: KH0018 (AS017)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS017
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Museum Number:  SA4029
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   2 Groups, 39 Cords - (20p, 19s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  1
Benford Match:  0.7349
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  1 (0, 0, 1, 0,...)
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   KH0018 (AS017)
Colored Pendant Sum
DataFile:
KH0018
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. All cords are the same color.
  2. By spacing, there are 2 groups of 10 pendants each.
  3. All pendants (except the last one) have a subsidiary.
  4. The numbers on the pendants range from 0 to 7 with each value present at least once, and the subsidiaries are 0 to 5 with each value present at least once. Further, the sum of each pendant and its subsidiary is 0 to 8 with each value (except 7) present at least once.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0018 (AS017):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 56-58
2006 Urton, Gary. Censos registrados en cordeles con ‘amarres’: Padrones poblacionales pre-hispánicos y coloniales tempranos en los khipu Inka. Revista Andina 42:153–196. Text: 169; 171
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. Text: 263
2007 Witkowski, Olaf. Essai de décryptage des cordelettes quipus utilisées par les Incas comme moyen de communication: Un exemple d’ethno-cryptographie (Doctoral dissertation, Master’s thesis, Université Catholique de Louvain). Text: 96