Catalog: KH0144 (AS129)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS129
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnologische Museum), Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA47098
Provenance:  Ica
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   2 Groups, 14 Cords - 14p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  6
Benford Match:  0.7802
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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KH0144
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. By spacing, the khipu is separated into 2 groups of 7 pendants each. Both groups have the same color pattern: MB, EB, B, MB: W, B: W, W, W.
  3. With the exception of the first position, values in both groups are in the same relative order. Specifically:
    Pi7 > Pi2 > Pi4 > Pi3 > Pi5 > Pi6 for i=(1, 2)

  4. With the exception of the 6th position, the values of group 2 are greater than those in corresponding positions in group 1.
    P2j > P1j for j=(1, 2...,5,7)

  5. The last value in group 1 is the sum of 3 other values in the group:
    P17 = P11 + P13 + P16

  6. a) Two pairs of values in group 1 have the same sum. In both pairs, the values are 3 positions apart.
    P11 + P14 = P13 + P16

    b) With a discrepancy of 1, the sum is the same for a pair of values in corresponding positions in both groups.
    P13 + P16 ≈ P23 + P26

Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0144 (AS129):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 698; 846-847
2010 Chirinos Rivera, Andrés. Quipus del Tahuantinsuyo: Curacas, Incas y su saber matemático en el siglo XVI. Editorial Commentarios, Lima. Text: 237; 243-244; 245; 340; Figures: 242
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