Catalog: KH0163 (UR1147, AS147)

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Aliases:   UR1147, AS147
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnologische Museum), Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA44866C
Provenance:  Ocucaje
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   9 Groups, 18 Cords - 18p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  4
Benford Match:  0.6145
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  3 (2, 1, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0163 (UR1147, AS147)
Pendant Pendant Sum
Indexed Pendant Sum
DataFile:
KH0163
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. KH0163-KH0165 are associated in that they were all designated by the same Museum number. They were acquired by the Museum in 1907 with provenance Ocucaje. For a comparison of them, see #4 below.
  2. By spacing, KH0163 is separated into 3 parts. Part 1 consists of 1 pair of pendants, and parts 2 and 3 consist of 4 pairs of pendants each. With the exception of the first pendant in the first pair, each pair in part 2 has the same color pattern: B: LG, B: GG. All pendants in part 3 are the same color, B.
  3. The values of the pendants in part 1 are related to the sums of the values in parts 2 and 3. They can be interp reted as inexact sums. The sum of the values of the first pendants in the 8 pairs in parts 2 and 3 is 270; the value on the first pendant in the pair in part 1 is 272. Similarly, the sum of the second pendant values is 381 and tha value of the second pendant in the pair in part 1 is 385.
  4. Comparison of KH0163-KH0165:
    1. The 3 khipus are similar in grouping. In all of them, the first part sums the following parts. KH0163 and KH0164 are both separated into 3 parts with the second and third parts each containing 4 pairs of pendants. In KH0163, the pair in part 1 sums the 8 pairs in parts 2 and 3 position by position. In KH0164, there are 2 pairs in part 1 so the sums are separate for each part and each position in a pair. KH0165 is also in 3 parts but it differs in the number of groups per part and the number of pendants per group. Again, the values in part 1 are sums, b􀖻t only of values in part 2, which in turn contains sums of values in part 3.
    2. The khipus use the same basic colors. The colors used, alone or in combination, are B, LB, LC, GG, and G0. Three of the 5 are used on KH0164, and KH0163 and KH0165 each use 4 of them.
    3. The values on the khipus differ in order of magnitude: on KH0163, the values in parts 2 and 3 are 23-65 and the sums in part 1 are 272-385; on KH0164, the values in parts 2 and 3 are 125-638 and the sums in part 1 are 941-2061; and on KH0165, the values in parts 2 and 3 are 0-3410 and the sums in part 1 are 660-21243.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0163 (UR1147, AS147):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 943-945
1981 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. Text: 68; 89
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
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: 96, 97