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Aliases: UR1124 Detail 1, AS124 Detail 1
Contributors: Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum: Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnologische Museum), Berlin, Germany
Museum Number: VA24371
Provenance: Marquez
Region: Unknown
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# of Groups & Cords: 4 Groups, 28 Cords - (23p, 5s)
# of Unique Cord Colors: 4
Benford Match: 0.9605
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...): 0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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| KH0139 (UR1124 Detail 1, AS124 Detail 1) |
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KH0139
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1. The khipu is attached to a carved piece of wood. The wood has 8 holes through which the khipu is threaded. Fig 1 shows the way in which the khipu is attached. Fig 2 show more details. (See Ascher and Ascher 1987:815) 2. This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1899 with the provenance "Marquez". This group includes KH00116, KH00117, KH0138, KH00142, and KH00143. See KH00116 for a comparison. See Fig 1 also for attachment of this khipu to KH0138 (1000080) |
| Bibliography: |
Bibliography for KH0139 (UR1124 Detail 1, AS124 Detail 1):
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Author |
Title |
Pages |
| 1999 |
Arellano Hoffmann, Carmen. |
Quipu y tocapu: Sistemas de comunicación inca. In Los Incas: Arte y sÃmbolos, 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; 813-816; Figures: 815 |
| 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, 107, 108 |
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