Catalog: KH0160 (UR1144, AS144)

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Aliases:   UR1144, AS144
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnologische Museum), Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA42564
Provenance:  Pachacamac
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   17 Groups, 62 Cords - 62p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  3
Benford Match:  0.6621
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  9 (7, 0, 2, 0,...)
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   KH0160 (UR1144, AS144)
Pendant Pendant Sum
Colored Pendant Sum
DataFile:
KH0160
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1907 with provenance Pachacamac. For a list of them, see KH0110.
  2. By spacing and markers, the khipu is separated into 4 parts. The first part is 4 groups, the second and third parts are 5 groups each, and the last part is 1 group. All groups have 4 pendants with the same color pattern: W, LB:W, W, W.
  3. All pendants in the group in the last part are zero-valued (or blank). None of the other pendants are zero-valued.
  4. In the first 3 parts , in every group, the pendant in the first position has the maximum value. The value exceeds the sum of the other 3 values in the group.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0160 (UR1144, AS144):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 680; 925-929
2025 FitzPatrick, Mackinley. Primary Questions: A Survey of Inka-Style Khipu Primary Cords. PREPRINT. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/hqkcj_v1 Text: 25, 26
2006 Pereyra Sánchez, Hugo. Descripción de los quipus del Museo de Sitio de Pachacamac. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica, Lima. Text: 14
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: 296
2003 Urton, Gary. Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records. University of Texas Press, Austin. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/785397 Figures: fig.1.3 (p.6)
2014 Urton, Gary. Quipus de Pachamac. Ministerio de Cultura, Lima. Text: 36; 43
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. Text: 120; 123; 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: 96, 97