Catalog: KH0169 (AS153)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS153
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnologische Museum), Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA66831
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   3 Groups, 40 Cords - (21p, 19s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  7
Benford Match:  0.8771
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  6 (3, 0, 1, 2,...)
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   KH0169 (AS153)
Pendant Pendant Sum
Colored Pendant Sum
Subsidiary Pendant Sum
DataFile:
KH0169
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. Construction note: The end of the main cord is bent back and inserted through the strands of the cord.
  2. Both groups of 10 pendant cords have the same color patterning. Each is subdivided into subsets of 6, 2, 2 pendants each. In Group 1 these are BB, BB-W, BB, while in Group 2 they are W, BB-W, W. In both groups, where there is one subsidiary on a pendant cord it is BB and where there is a second subsidiary it is LB in Group 1 and LC in Group 2.
  3. In both groups:
    • the value of pendant 2 equals the value of pendant 4;
    • the value of pendant 5 equals the value of pendant 6; and
    • the value of pendant 3 equals 3
  4. In Group 1, the sum of the values on the BB colored pendants equals the sum of the values on the BB colored subsidiaries.
  5. In both groups the last ( tenth) pendant is related to the sums of the other pendants in the groups.
    1. In Group 1, the sum of all subsidiary values on pendants 1 to 8 equals the value on pendant 10.
    2. In Group 2, the sum of all subsidiary values on pendants 1 to 8 equals the value of the first subsidiary on pendant 10. The subsidiary value on pendant 9 equals the value of the second subsidiary on pendant 10. Hence, the sum of all subsidiary values on the first 9 pendants equals the sum of the subsidiary values on the tenth pendant.
    3. The sum of the first 9 pendant values in Group 1 equals the value of the tenth pendant in Group 2.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0169 (AS153):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 974-976
2005 Ascher, Marcia. How Can Spin, Ply, and Knot Direction Contribute to Understanding the Quipu Code? Latin American Antiquity 16(1):99–111. Text: 103-104
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: 288; Figures: 301
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 Text: 82; Figures: fig.3.11 (p.82-83)
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