Catalog: KH0038 (UR1033D, AS033D)

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Aliases:   UR1033D, AS033D
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Museum Number:  41.52.30/293B
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   12 Groups, 25 Cords - 25p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  3
Benford Match:  0.9197
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  7 (4, 1, 2, 0,...)
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   KH0038 (UR1033D, AS033D)
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Indexed Pendant Sum
Colored Pendant Sum
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KH0038
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. Construction note: Pendants 1 and 2 are tied to the end of the main cord.
  2. Construction note: Pendants 3 and 4 are linked together by pendant 3 being tied around pendant 4.
  3. This khipu is part of the collection of 7 connected khipus numbered KH0035-KH0041.
  4. After the first 5 pendants, there are 10 groups of 2 pendants each by spacing.
    Each group has a W pendant and an R pendant.
    Groups 2-9 are R, W, while groups 1 and 10 are W, R.
  5. The values on the pendants in the 10 groups are 0-6.
  6. Pendant 1 is W and its value is the sum of the W pendants in groups 1-10.
    Pendant 2 is R, and its value is the sum of the R pendants in groups 1-10.
  7. Pendant 5 is the sum of pendants 3 and 4.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0038 (UR1033D, AS033D):

Year Author Title Pages
1975 Ascher, Marcia and Robert Ascher. Quipu as a visible language. Visible Language 9(4):329-356. Figures: fig.13 (p.354)
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 155; 160-162
1981 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. Text: 15; 68; Figures: 10; pl.4.6 (p.73)
1995 Ascher, Marcia and Robert Ascher. Civilization without writing : the Incas and the Quipu. In: Communication in history : technology, culture, society / edited by David Crowley, Paul Heyer. Boston, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon ; London : Pearson Education [distributor], 2011, p. 36-43 Figures: 37
1986 Ascher, Marcia. Mathematical Ideas of the Incas.’ In Native American Mathematics, edited by Michael P. Closs, pp. 261–289. University of Texas Press, Austin. Figures: fig.10.6 (p.276)
2014 Cherkinsky, Alexander, and Gary Urton. Radiocarbon Chronology of Andean Khipus. Open Journal of Archaeometry 2(5260):32-36. Text: 34
2025 FitzPatrick, Mackinley. Primary Questions: A Survey of Inka-Style Khipu Primary Cords. PREPRINT. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/hqkcj_v1 Text: 7, 8
2019 Milillo, Lucrezia. Andean khipus in Italian collections - Morphological description and ethnohistorical investigation. Masters thesis, School of Humanities, University of Bologna. Text: 84-85; Figures: fig.44 (p.85)
2020 Pancorvo Salicetti, Anel, (editor). Quipus y quipucamayoc: Codificación y administración en el antiguo Perú. Apus Graph Ediciones, Lima. Salicetti, Anel, (editor). Quipus y quipucamayoc: Codificación y administración en el antiguo Perú. Apus Graph Ediciones, Lima. Text: 440; Figures: 441
2024 Pierre Louis, Gusnie. Reflecting on Khipu Studies in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology: Khipu 41-52-30/2938. In Situ: News and Events of the Harvard Standing Committee on Archaeology, Spring 2024:27-28. Text: throughout; Figures: fig.12 (p.27); fig.13-15 (p.28)
2009 Quave, Kylie. Confronting Anomaly in the Khipu Structure: Cultural and Individual Variations from Two Museum Collections. In Actas: IV Jornadas Internacionales sobre Textiles Precolombinos, edited by Victòria Solanilla Demestre, pp. 241-251. Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona. Text: 245
2013 Salomon, Frank. The Twisting Paths of Recall: Khipu (Andean cord notation) as artifact. In Writing as Material Practice: Substance, surface and medium, edited by Kathryn E. Piquette and Ruth D. Whitehouse, pp. 15-43. Ubiquity Press, London. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bai.b Text: 38; Figures: fig.24 (p.38)
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: 97