Catalog: KH0038 (UR1033D, AS033D)

Section Information
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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)
Pendant Pendant Sum
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. -
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 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. 15; 68
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. -
2014 Cherkinsky, Alexander, and Gary Urton. Radiocarbon Chronology of Andean Khipus. Open Journal of Archaeometry 2(5260):32-36. 34
2019 Milillo, Lucrezia. Andean khipus in Italian collections - Morphological description and ethnohistorical investigation. Masters thesis, School of Humanities, University of Bologna. 84-85
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. 440
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. throughout
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. 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 38
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 263