Catalog: KH0072 (AS061/MA036)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS061/MA036
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  O. Nunez del Prado, Cuzco, Peru
Museum Number:  8B
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   3 Groups, 18 Cords - (8p, 1t, 9s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  2
Benford Match:  0.9363
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0072 (AS061/MA036)
DataFile:
KH0072
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. This khipu is associated with khipus KH0070-KH0080. See discussion under KH0070.
  2. All pendants are colored B:W. Each has a value 7 or less and each has a subsidiary colored MB whose value is 1 or 2.
  3. The top cord is the color of the pendant cords, and its value is the sum of the pendant values. The subsidiary is the color of the subsidiaries on the pendants, and its value is the sum of the subsidiary values.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0072 (AS061/MA036):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 9; 347-348; 351-352
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; 261; Figures: fig.9 (p.262)
1990 Mackey, Carol J. Comparición entre quipu inca y quipus modernos. In Quipu y Yupana: Colección de Escritos, edited by Carol Mackey, Hugo Pereyra, Carlos Radicati, Humerto Rodriguez, Oscar Valverde, pp. 135-156. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Lima. Text: 142; Figures: fig.3 (p.143)
2024 Medrano, Manuel and Ashok Khosla. How Can Data Science Contribute to Understanding the Khipu Code? Latin American Antiquity. Published online 2024:1-20. doi:10.1017/laq.2024.5 Text: 8
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
1976 Radicati di Primeglio, Carlos. El sistema contable de los Incas: Yupana y Quipu. In Estudios sobre los quipus, edited by Gary Urton, pp. 265-354. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima. Text: 352
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: 96, 101