Catalog: KH0059 (AS048)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS048
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museo Amano, Lima, Peru
Museum Number:  R2700
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   12 Groups, 80 Cords - (52p, 28s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  8
Benford Match:  0.8643
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  23 (11, 3, 9, 0,...)
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   KH0059 (AS048)
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Indexed Pendant Sum
Colored Pendant Sum
DataFile:
KH0059
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. On cords P8s2, P34s2, and P47sl, the color change is at 2. 5 cm. On P46sl it is at 6.0 cm.
  2. KH0059 and KH0060 were excavated by University of Tokyo 1958 expedition, La Centinela, Tambo de Mora. The work is described in Andes, The University of Tokyo Expedition 1958, Report 1, pp. 225-226. The Museum has several associated fragments of pottery.
  3. The khipu has 12 groups by spacing. The last 11 groups each have 4 pendants and the same color pattern (B, W, W, W). For all 11 groups:
    1. positions 1 and 4 have no subsidiaries.
    2. position 2 has the maximum value. With the exception of the last group, P2 > P1 + P3 + P4.
    3. the values on pendants and subsidiaries are each 17 or less. Only 0, 1 appears in position l; 0-4 in position 3; 0-2, 4, 7 in position 4; and 1, 2,3, 7 on subsidiaries.
  4. The values on pendants in group 1 are between 6 and 11, and all 6 subsidiaries have value 1.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0059 (AS048):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 268-272
2007 Cabrera Ibarra, Hugo; Rosu Barbus, Haret C.; Torres González, Luis A. & Treviño Gutiérrez, J. Pablo. "La codificación de los Quipus incas". Ciencia : Revista de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias. ). Figures: 28
2018 Díaz, Carolina. Cecilia Vicuña’s Quipu-Making as a Theory of Time.” A Contracorriente: Una Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos 16 (1): 174–202. Figures: fig.1 (p.178)
1975 Mclntyre, Loren. The Incredible Incas and Their Timeless Land. National Georgraphic Society, Washington. Figures: 30
2003 Saltachín Camayo, Ángel. "Quien es el Quipucamayoc?". EconCusco : revista informativa. ). Figures: no page
2008 Urton, Gary. The Inca Khipu: Knotted-Cord record keeping in the Andes. In Handbook of South American Archaeology, edited by Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell, pp. 831-843 . Springer Verlag, New York. Text: 835
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: 86