Catalog: KH0099 (MM1086, AS086)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   MM1086, AS086
Contributors:  Manuel Medrano
Museum:  Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland
Museum Number:  IVc.2821.b
Provenance:  Dr Franz Xavier Weizinger, 1921
Region:  Unknown
# of Groups & Cords:   46 Groups, 46 Cords - 46p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  7
Benford Match:  0.8052
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  12 (4, 5, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0099 (MM1086, AS086)
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KH0099

Notes:
Moderate size khipu fragment with tightly-spaced pendant cords. Relatively muted in terms of color diversity, although there is very little pendant breakage across the primary cord. The primary cord is extremely difficult to see.
The khipu is affixed to a light brown (YB or YY) cloth backing.
Additional Notes: This khipu was studied by the Aschers, who assigned the label KH0099 to their recording. Following convention, I label this recount of the khipu KH0099. Of the khipus in the museum's collections, this is the only one previously catalogued by a modern khipu researcher.

Cord Notes


9-46: Appears as if these cords are not attached to a primary cord at all, since there is only a thread passing through the attachment knots of these cords which affixes them to the same fabric backing as the rest of the khipu. However, the knotting pattern of high value cords and their preservation are similar enough that it is plausible that the cords are correctly ordered and comprised the same original khipu.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0099 (MM1086, AS086):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 615-617
2021 Medrano, Manuel. Quipus: Mil años de historia anudada en los Andes y su futuro digital. Planeta, Lima. Text: 103
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. Text: 261
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