Catalog: KH0138 (UR1124, AS124)

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Aliases:   UR1124, AS124
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnologische Museum), Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA24371
Provenance:  Marquez
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   7 Groups, 35 Cords - 35p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  3
Benford Match:  0.8789
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  12 (7, 1, 4, 0,...)
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   KH0138 (UR1124, AS124)
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DataFile:
KH0138
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. The khipu is attached to a carved piece of wood. The wood has 8 holes through which the khipu is threaded. Figure 1 shows the way in which the khipu is attached. Figure 2 shows details of the carving.
  2. 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 acomparison of them, see KH00116.
  3. On the portion of the khipu threaded through the wood:
    1. Each group contains 5 or 6 pendants. In all groups, the first pendant and the last 3 pendants are W and, with the exception of the last group, the second pendant is DB.
    2. In all groups, the value on the first pendant is the largest.
  4. Both the khipu threaded through the wood and the khipu appended to it (labeled Detail 1) are made of the same color cords: W, DB, and YG.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0138 (UR1124, AS124):

Year Author Title Pages
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: 226
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 720; 811-816
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
2014 Cherkinsky, Alexander, and Gary Urton. Radiocarbon Chronology of Andean Khipus. Open Journal of Archaeometry 2(5260):32-36. Text: 33; 34; 36; Figures: fig.1 (p.33)
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
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. Text: 126-131; 261; Figures: fig.7.4 (p.129); fig.7.5+7.6 (p.130)
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