Catalog: KH0071 (AS060)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS060
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  O. Nunez del Prado, Cuzco, Peru
Museum Number:  6B
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   4 Groups, 15 Cords - 15p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  3
Benford Match:  0.8658
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  1 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0071 (AS060)
Ascher Decreasing Group
DataFile:
KH0071
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. This khipu is associated with KH0070-AS67. See discussion under KH0070.
  2. Groups are set off by spacing and color. There are 4 groups of 3, 4,4,4 pendants by spacing. In group 1 all pendants are colored YB; the first 2 in group 2 are YB:W and the next 2W; all pendants in groups 3 and 4 are colored W.
  3. All pendant values are 1-8.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0071 (AS060):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 347-348; 349-350
1981 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. Text: 68
1970 Mackey, Carol. Knot Records in Ancient and Modern Peru. PhD dissertation, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. Text: 83-99; 213; 224-227
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: 242
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: 264
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: 101