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Aliases: AS031, UR1031, UR044
Contributors: Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum: Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Museum Number: 32.70.30/F851
Provenance: La puntilla, between Paracas and Pisco
Region: Unknown
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# of Groups & Cords: 9 Groups, 87 Cords - (54p, 33s)
# of Unique Cord Colors: 8
Benford Match: 0.8346
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...): 24 (13, 0, 7, 2,...)
Similar Khipu: Previous (KH0205) Next (KH0141)
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| Notes: |
Ascher Databook Notes:
- This khipu can be viewed as six groups of 8 pendants (assuming that it is the 4th pendant in the 5th group that is not present) with 3 additional pendants (1, 41, 42) and a final group of 4 blank pendants (51-54). Referring to them as groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, the following regularities are noted:
- All pendants in a group are the same color. Group 5 is LB/W and the rest are W.
- For all 6 groups, there are subsidiaries on pendants 2 and 5.
- For all 6 groups, the values of pendants 2 and 5 are between 77 and 158 while the values of the other six pendants are each less than 59. When subsidiary values are added to pendant values, the values of positions 2 and 5 are increased so that they are between 120 and 163(+?), but the values of the other 6 positions remain less than 59. Alternate groups show similarities:
- For groups 1, 3, 5: P5 > P2 > P4 ≥ P3 > {P7,P8 ; Pl=8}
- While for groups 2, 4, 6: P2 > P5 > P3 > P4; P4=16
- For groups 3, 5: Pl=8 ; P2=77; P5=83
- While for groups 4, 6: P4=16; P5=90; P6=4
- There seem to be an excessive number of values that are multiples of 8 or 11. Of forty-four unbroken, nonzero pendant values, 12 are multiples of 8, and 8 are multiples of 11. When subsidiary values and pendant values are considered, of sixty-five values, fifteen are multiples of 8 and twelve are multiples of 11. The multiples of 8 that appear are 8, 16, 24, 3 2, 40, and 120. The multiples of 11 are 11, 33, 44, 55, 77, and 132.
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| Bibliography: |
Bibliography for KH0033 (AS031, UR1031, UR044):
| Year |
Author |
Title |
Pages |
| 1978 |
Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. |
Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. |
118-123 |
| 1981 |
Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. |
Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. |
121 |
| 1983 |
Ascher, Marcia. |
The Logical-Numerical System of Inca Quipus. Annals of the History of Computing 5:268–278. DOI: 10.1109/MAHC.1983.10090 |
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| 2014 |
Cherkinsky, Alexander, and Gary Urton. |
Radiocarbon Chronology of Andean Khipus. Open Journal of Archaeometry 2(5260):32-36. |
34 |
| 2024 |
FitzPatrick, Mackinley. |
Misadventures with Khipu Naming Conventions. In Situ: News and Events of the Harvard Standing Committee on Archaeology, Spring 2024:20-24. |
24 |
| 2011 |
Urton, Gary, and Carrie J. Brezine. |
Khipu Typologies. In Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America, edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone and Gary Urton, pp. 319–352. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington. |
348 |
| 2017 |
Urton, Gary. |
Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. |
263 |
| 1966 |
Willey, Gordon R. |
An Introduction to American Archaeology: South America, Vol. 2. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey. |
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