Catalog: KH0065 (AS054)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS054
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museo Regional de Ica "Adolfo Bermúdez Jenkins", Ica, Peru
Museum Number:  3
Provenance:  Hacienda Ullujalla y Callengo
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   4 Groups, 26 Cords - (21p, 5s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  9
Benford Match:  0.8291
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  5 (2, 0, 1, 2,...)
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   KH0065 (AS054)
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Subsidiary Pendant Sum
DataFile:
KH0065
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. Construction note: Start of main cord is turned back and inserted between strands to form a closed loop of 1. 0 cm.
  2. The Museum records the provenance as Hacienda Ulluj alla y Callengo. All of the khipus KH0062-KH0067 have the same attribution.
  3. Pendant 1 and all 4 subsidiaries are made of wooly animal hair rather than cotton. All subsidiaries are the same color.
  4. There are 4 groups of 2, S, 9, 5 pendants by spacing. Group 3 has all pendants of one color. Groups 2 and 4 have the same number of pendants, the same color pendants in positions 1 (YB) and positions 4 (DB-YB), and the same value (430) in the last position.
  5. Long knots appear only on 2 subsidiaries. On all other cords, only s knots are used. Values have, therefore, been interpreted depending on placement of knots with the assumption that the lowest position is units.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0065 (AS054):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 300; 307-309
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