Catalog: KH0046 (AS035D)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS035D
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Museum Number:  70.177.69, X591a
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown
# of Groups & Cords:   8 Groups, 38 Cords - (37p, 1s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  9
Benford Match:  0.7716
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  9 (7, 2, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0046 (AS035D)
Pendant Pendant Sum
Indexed Pendant Sum
DataFile:
KH0046

Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. Construction note : pendants 21 and 22 are tied together at 1.0 cm . below the main cord by a YB colored cord.
  2. This khipu contains 5 broken pendants of color KB. Two fragments of KB pendants were loose within the khipu collection . One had a cluster of 2L knots, and the other a cluster of 4L knots.
  3. KH0043-KH0046 is a collection of 4 khipus that are tied together.
  4. By spacing, there are 8 groups of 4, 4, 5, 5, 4, 4, 5, 6 pendants. With the exception of 1 additional pendant in group 7, groups 5, 6, 7 show the same colr pattern (KB, MB/YB, MB:YB, MB:KB).
  5. Group 1 repeats the values on KH0043, and group 2 repeats the color and values on KH0044.

Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0046 (AS035D):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 181; 182; 185-187
1989 Ascher, Marcia, Robert Ascher, Mariusz S. Ziółkowski, and Robert M. Sadowski. Are There Numbers in the Sky?." In Time and Calendars in the Inca Empire, edited by Mariusz S. Ziólkowski and Robert M. Sadowski. BAR International Series 479, Oxford. pp.35-48 43-47
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 262