Catalog: KH0171 (AS155)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS155
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnologische Museum), Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA37967B
Provenance:  near Lima
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   2 Groups, 9 Cords - (6p, 3s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  4
Benford Match:  0.5879
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  1 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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KH0171
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1907 with provenance near Lima. For a discussion of them, see KH00140.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0171 (AS155):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 849-850; 978
2005 Ascher, Marcia. How Can Spin, Ply, and Knot Direction Contribute to Understanding the Quipu Code? Latin American Antiquity 16(1):99–111. Text: 102
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: 295
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: 101