Catalog: KH0142 (UR1127, AS127, N7)

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Aliases:   UR1127, AS127, N7
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnologische Museum), Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA63042(A)
Provenance:  Nazca
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   2 Groups, 6 Cords - 6p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  3
Benford Match:  0.7606
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  2 (1, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0142 (UR1127, AS127, N7)
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Group Group Sum
DataFile:
KH0142
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. KH0142, KH0143, and KH0193 were acquired by the Museum in 1933 with provenance Nazca. KH0142 and KH0143 are loosely tied together.
  2. By spacing, the khipu is one group of 5 pendants preceded by a single pendant. The single pendant is also distinguished by being a different color than the pendants in the group. The value of the single pendant is the sum of the values on the pendants in the group.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0142 (UR1127, AS127, N7):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 829; 844
1981 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. Text: 89
2005 Ascher, Marcia. How Can Spin, Ply, and Knot Direction Contribute to Understanding the Quipu Code? Latin American Antiquity 16(1):99–111. Text: 102
1925 Kreichgauer, P. Dam. Bibliograpie: Nordenskiöld: The Secret of the Quipu. Anthropos 20:1193-1194. Text: 1194
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
1925 Nordenskiöld, Erland. The Secret of the Peruvian Quipus. Elanders, Gothenburg. Text: 27; Figures: pl.4
1949 Radicati di Primeglio, Carlos. Introducción al estudio de los quipus. Documenta, Revista de la Sociedad Peruana de Historia 2(1):244-339. Text: 275
1976 Radicati di Primeglio, Carlos. El sistema contable de los Incas: Yupana y Quipu. In Estudios sobre los quipus, edited by Gary Urton, pp. 265-354. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima. Text: 324; 350
1987 Radicati di Primeglio, Carlos. Hacia una tipificación de los quipus. In Quipu y Yupana: Colección de Escritos, edited by Carol Mackey, Hugo Pereyra, Carlos Radicati, Humerto Rodriguez, Oscar Valverde, pp. 89-95. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Lima. Text: 93
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