Catalog: KH0151 (UR1135, AS135)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   UR1135, AS135
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnologische Museum), Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA47115
Provenance:  Ica
Region:  Unknown
# of Groups & Cords:   3 Groups, 23 Cords - (22p, 1s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  5
Benford Match:  0.9032
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  1 (1, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0151 (UR1135, AS135)
Pendant Pendant Sum
DataFile:
KH0151

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 3 groups. Each group has a similar color pattern: MB, MB: GG, 2 mixtures of MB and W, W, W, MB-W, MB:W. The mixtures of MB and W vary. They are MB:W/W/MB, MB/W, W/MB, and MB:W/MB. (Note. that on the khipu, the 2 colors W and MB have been used alone or in combination in 8 different ways.) Where there are only 6 pendants in a group, it is the first and third positions that are non-existent.
  3. For all 3 groups, when the colors are aligned, the last 4 values have the same relative magnitudes. Namely:

    Pi7 > Pi6 > Pi8 > Pi5     for i=(1,2,3)
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0151 (UR1135, AS135):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 698; 876-877
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: 298
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