Catalog: KH0131 (UR1117, AS117)

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Aliases:   UR1117, AS117
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnologische Museum), Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA47118
Provenance:  Ica
Region:  Unknown
# of Groups & Cords:   7 Groups, 11 Cords - 11p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  4
Benford Match:  0.8466
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0131 (UR1117, AS117)
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KH0131

Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1907 with provenance Ica. For a list of them, see KH00110.
  2. Some values on the khipu are sums of values on later consecutive pendants. Namely:

    P1 = P3 + P4
    P4 = P5 + P6
    P6 = P9 + P10 + P11
    P7 = P8 + P9 + P10 + P11

    One value is the sum of the squares of values on later consecutive pendants:
    \[ P_{2} = \sum\limits_{i=4}^{11} P_{i}^2 \]
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0131 (UR1117, AS117):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 698; 789-790
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: 122
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: 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