Catalog: KH0121 (UR1107, AS107)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   UR1107, AS107
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA24370(B)
Provenance:  Marquez
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   8 Groups, 29 Cords - 29p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  4
Benford Match:  0.9423
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  3 (3, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0121 (UR1107, AS107)
Pendant Pendant Sum
DataFile:
KH0121
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1899 with provenance Marquez. This group includes KH00116, KH00117, KH0138, KH00142, and KH00143. For a comparison of them, see KH00116.
  2. By spacing, the khipu is separated into groups that contain different numbers of pendants.
  3. Assuming that P20 has value 108, the knots on the main cord represent a value that is the sum of the values on the 9 pendants in the last group.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0121 (UR1107, AS107):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 720; 723-724
1994 Urton, Gary. New Twist in an Old Yarn: Variation in Knot Directionality in the Inka Khipus. Baessler-Archiv Neue Folge 42:271-305. 299
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 126-131; 261