Catalog: KH0104 (UR1091, AS091)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   UR1091, AS091
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich, Germany
Museum Number:  26T580
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   21 Groups, 89 Cords - 89p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  5
Benford Match:  0.9333
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  36 (17, 4, 14, 0,...)
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   KH0104 (UR1091, AS091)
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Indexed Pendant Sum
Colored Pendant Sum
Group Sum Bands
DataFile:
KH0104
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. By spacing, there are 3 groups followed by a single pendant, then 9 groups followed by a single pendant, then 6 groups followed by a single pendant.
  2. Groups 4-11 are paired in size and color. The number of pendants per group are 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2 respectively. The first 2 of these groups each have 3W and 2KB cords but in different orders; then 2 groups have the color pattern KB, MB, W, MB; the next 2 groups continue this pattern but without the final color (KB, MB, W); and the last 2 groups are both all W. Groups 13-18 are also paired in color: 2 groups are W; then 2 are MB; and then 2 are W.
  3. Many of the pendants contain multiple values. For example, we interpret the value of pendant 11 as 5&8, and the value of pendant 7 7 as 16&9. With this interpretation, the values of the 12 pendants in groups 15 and 16 sum to the value of the single pendant that follows them.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0104 (UR1091, AS091):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 640-645
1981 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. Text: 31
2014 Mamaní, José Luis. Inca Quipu: elementos. Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Avda, Bolivia. Text: 49
1964 Radicati di Primeglio, Carlos. La seriación como posible clave para descifrar losquipus extranumerales. In Estudios sobre los quipus, edited by Gary Urton, pp. 155–264. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima. Text: 219; Figures: 234
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. Text: 262
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: 86, 88, 89, 97