Catalog: KH0092 (AS079)

Section Information
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Aliases:   AS079
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Musee Quai Branly (previous names: Musee de l Homme, Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro), Paris, France
Museum Number:  71.1964.19.1.6
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown
# of Groups & Cords:   17 Groups, 74 Cords - 74p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  6
Benford Match:  0.4957
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0092 (AS079)
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KH0092

Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. KH0087-KH0093 are associated. See KH0087 for discussion.
  2. By spacing, there are 15 groups and 2 single pendants (PSS and P68). The single pendants are viewed as markers since there are larger spaces between ad­jacent groups where they occur, and because both of them are blank. Hence, by markers and number of pendants per group, the khipu is separated into 3 parts. The first part is 9 groups of 6 pendants each; the second is 4 groups of 3 pen­dants each; and the last part is 2 groups of 3 pendants each.
  3. All groups in Part I have the same color pattern: BS, PB, W, W, MB, AB. The groups in Parts II and III have the same color pattern as each other. Their pattern is a subset of the pattern of Part I: W, W, MB.
  4. The pattern of values on the pendants in Parts II and III are similar:
    \[P_{i1}=P_{i3}\;\;for\;i\;=\;(10,11,12,13,14)\]
    \[P_{i1}=P_{i2}-1\;\;for\;i\;=\;(10,11,12,14,15)\]
    Thus:
    \[P_{i1}=P_{i2}-1\;=P_{i3}\;for\;i\;=\;(10,11,12,14)\]

Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0092 (AS079):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 560-561; 581-585
2025 FitzPatrick, Mackinley. Primary Questions: A Survey of Inka-Style Khipu Primary Cords. PREPRINT. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/hqkcj_v1 Text: 20-21, 23
2013 Salomon, Frank. The Twisting Paths of Recall: Khipu (Andean cord notation) as artifact. In Writing as Material Practice: Substance, surface and medium, edited by Kathryn E. Piquette and Ruth D. Whitehouse, pp. 15-43. Ubiquity Press, London. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bai.b Figures: fig.1 (p.16)
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. Text: 261