Catalog: KH0105 (AS092)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS092
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich, Germany
Museum Number:  G3306
Provenance:  Peru
Region:  Unknown
# of Groups & Cords:   10 Groups, 56 Cords - 56p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  3
Benford Match:  0.8449
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  35 (19, 4, 11, 0,...)
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   KH0105 (AS092)
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DataFile:
KH0105

Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. KH0100, KH0102, KH0103, KH0105, KH0106, KH0107 are associates in that the Museum designates them all as donated by Gaffron, and gives the provenance as Peru. For a comparison of them, see KH0100.
  2. By spacing, KH0105 is separated into 10 groups. The first 8 groups each have 6 pendants with the same color pattern (W, MB, MB:W, W, W, W).
  3. In all 10 groups, the first pendant has the maximum value.
  4. Position by position, the pendant values in group 1 are larger than those in group 4, which are larger than those in group 3, which are larger than those in group 2. That is:
    \[ P_{1i} > P_{4i} > P_{3i} > P_{2i}\;for\;\;i\;=\;(2,3,4,...,8) \]
  5. In a few cases, the sums of values in the same position in pairs of consecutive groups are equal. Namely:
    \[ P_{4i} + P_{5i} = P_{6i} + P_{7i}\;for\;\;i\;=\;(1,4) \]
    \[ P_{2i} + P_{3i} = P_{6i} + P_{7i}\;for\;\;i\;=\;(4,6) \]

Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0105 (AS092):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 623; 646-649
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: 233
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: 97