Catalog: KH0027 (AS026A)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS026A
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Museum Number:  SA4030
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown
# of Groups & Cords:   6 Groups, 77 Cords - (54p, 23s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  10
Benford Match:  0.425
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  8 (4, 0, 3, 0,...)
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   KH0027 (AS026A)
Pendant Pendant Sum
Colored Pendant Sum
Group Sum Bands
DataFile:
KH0027

Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. Khipus KH0027 and KH0028 are joined. Their main cords are knotted together at 1.0 cm. from the twisted end of KH0027 (between pendant cords 2 and 3), and at 15.0 cm. from the twisted end of KH0028 (just before its first pendant cord).
  2. By spacing, KH0027 has 6 groups of 2, 12, 13, 12, 10, 5 pendants respectively. The order of magnitude of the values in the first group (29-49) is greater than the values in the other groups ( 0-13). Within the other groups, values in position 1 are 8-13 while values in all the other positions are restricted to 0-6.
  3. Both KH0027 and KH0028 contain the colors W, B, FB and their combinations FB:W and B:W. There are colors that occur in KH0027 and not in KH0028, as follows: DB, G, and the combinations G:W, B:G, and FB:B. Similarly, there are colors that occur in KH0028 and not in KH0027. They are: KB, GG, GG:W, B:GG, and KB:B. These differences may be due to differential changes from the same original colors.

Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0027 (AS026A):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 78-82; 95
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. 164; 165; 170;171
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 189; 263