Catalog: KH0120 (UR1106, AS106)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   UR1106, AS106
Contributors:  Gary Urton
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnologische Museum), Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA24370(A)
Provenance:  Marquez
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   13 Groups, 55 Cords - (50p, 5s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  7
Benford Match:  0.7265
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  7 (6, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0120 (UR1106, AS106)
Pendant Pendant Sum
Ascher Decreasing Group
DataFile:
KH0120
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. The khipu is threaded through a wooden bar. Figure 1 shows the way it is attached to the bar and Figure 2 shows details of the bar itself.
  2. This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 189 9 with provenance Marquez. The group includes KH00116, KH00117, KH0138, KH00142, and KH00143. For a comparison of them, see #4 below.
  3. By the manner of attachment to the bar, pendants 1-30 are separated into 4 groups of 9, 8, 7, and 6 pendants. With the excep tion of the second pendant in group 1, the groups have the same basic color order but with some positions non-existent in the smaller groups. The color order is: YB, BS: 0B, LB, YB, LB, YG, BS, LB, 0B. The non-existent positions are the last in the second group, the 4th and last in the third group, and the 3rd, 6th, and 7th in the fourth group.
  4. Comparison of KH00116, KH00117, KH0138, KH00142, KH00143:
    1. KH00116 and KH00117 are designated by the same Museum number. KH00117 is loosely tied around the wooden bar through which KH00116 is threaded. The 4 cord colors used on KH00117 are 4 of the 5 colors used on KH00116.
    2. Each of KH00116 and KH0138 is threaded through a wooden bar.
    3. KH00142 and KH00143 are designated by the same Museum number. On each of them, the first cord is linked through the twisted end of the main cord.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0120 (UR1106, AS106):

Year Author Title Pages
1984 ANDERS, Ferdinand and Federico Kauffman Doig, editors. Peru durch die Jahrtausende: Kunst und Kultur im Lande der Inkaa. Amt der NÖ Landesregierung, Wien. Text: 391
1999 Arellano Hoffmann, Carmen. Quipu y tocapu: Sistemas de comunicación inca. In Los Incas: Arte y símbolos, edited by Franklin Pease G. Y., Craig Morris, Julián I. Santillana, et al., pp. 215–261. Banco de Crédito del Perú, Lima. Figures: 227
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 717-722; Figures: 721
1981 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. Text: 15; 96
2025 FitzPatrick, Mackinley. Primary Questions: A Survey of Inka-Style Khipu Primary Cords. PREPRINT. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/hqkcj_v1 Text: 26
2020 Medelius Olcese de Riveros, Y.M., 2021. Dando cuentas: los quipucamayos en las comunidades indígenas y ante la administración colonial. Perú, siglo XVI. Doctoral Thesis. Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevill. Olcese de Riveros, Y.M., 2021. Dando cuentas: los quipucamayos en las comunidades indígenas y ante la administración colonial. Perú, siglo XVI. Doctoral Thesis. Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla Text: 120
2020 Pancorvo Salicetti, Anel, (editor). Quipus y quipucamayoc: Codificación y administración en el antiguo Perú. Apus Graph Ediciones, Lima. Salicetti, Anel, (editor). Quipus y quipucamayoc: Codificación y administración en el antiguo Perú. Apus Graph Ediciones, Lima. Text: 432; Figures: 433
1984 Radicati di Primeglio, Carlos. The quipus of the Regional Museum of Ica. In Peru durch die Jahrtausende: Kunst und Kultur im Lande der Inka, pp. 147-151. Amt der NÖ Landesregierung, Wien. Text: 148; Figures: 148
1994 Urton, Gary. New Twist in an Old Yarn: Variation in Knot Directionality in the Inka Khipus. Baessler-Archiv Neue Folge 42:271-305. Text: 299
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. Text: 126-128; 261; Figures: fig.7.2 (p.127); fig.7.3 (p.128)
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