Catalog: KH0040 (UR1033F, AS033F)

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Aliases:   UR1033F, AS033F
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:   3 Groups, 21 Cords - 21p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  4
Benford Match:  0.7828
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  2 (2, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0040 (UR1033F, AS033F)
Pendant Pendant Sum
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KH0040
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. Construction note : Cord 1 is linked through the twisted end of the main cord.
  2. This khipu is part of the collection of 7 connected khipus numbered KH0035-KH0041.
  3. The khipu cons ists of 2 groups of 10 pendants each by spacing. Within each group, the pendants alternate in color : W, AB, W, AB, ... etc .
  4. With the exception of the cord dangling at the end of the main cord (P1), all values are 3-7 or 11-14.
  5. The values on the AB colored cords are greater than or equal to the values on the adjacent W cords. With the exception of position 2, the values in group 1 are greater than the values in the corresponding positions in group 2.
  6. The value 47 on Pl, which is W, could be associated with the sum of the W pendants. However, there is one W pendant that is broken and so its value is unknown. For 47 to be their sum, this pendant value would have to be 6; this is consistent with the regularities observed above.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0040 (UR1033F, AS033F):

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; 164-165; Figures: 165
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