Catalog: KH0021 (AS020)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS020
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Museum Number:  CG852611-6382, SA4034
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown
# of Groups & Cords:   2 Groups, 10 Cords - 10p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  3
Benford Match:  0.8398
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  3 (1, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0021 (AS020)
Pendant Pendant Sum
Ascher Decreasing Group
DataFile:
KH0021

Notes:
Fieldguide Notes:

This khipus has 2 interesting field-marks:
  1. Each group is in (roughly) sorted descending order.
  2. Each cord in the left group is (roughly) greater than the right group.

Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. This khipu and KH0019 are not, to our knowledge, associated, but are given identical numbers SA4034 by the owner.
  2. By spacing there are 2 groups of 5 pendants each.
  3. Both groups have the same color pattern-—-B,W,B,B,B:W.
  4. Represent the value on the pendant in group i at position j by
    \[V_{ij}\;\;where\;i=1,2;\;\;j=1,2,...,5 \]
    1. Comparison between groups:
      \[V_{1j}>V_{2j}\;for\;j=1,3,4,5\]
    2. Comparison within groups:
      \[V_{i1}>V_{i2}\;\;and\;\;V_{i1}>V_{i3}\;>\;V_{i4}>V_{i5}\;for\;i=1,2 \]

Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0021 (AS020):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 60; 63-64
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 263