Catalog: KH0173 (AS157, N14)

Section Information
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Aliases:   AS157, N14
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnologische Museum), Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA42550
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown
# of Groups & Cords:   5 Groups, 34 Cords - (18p, 16s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  1
Benford Match:  0.801
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  1 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0173 (AS157, N14)
Ascher Decreasing Group
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KH0173

Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. By spacing, the khipu is separated into 5 groups of 2, 4, 5, 5, 2 pendants respectively. With the exception of the first group, every pendant in every group has 1 subsidiary.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0173 (AS157, N14):

Year Author Title Pages
1999 Arellano Hoffmann, Carmen. Quipu y tocapu: Sistemas de comunicación inca. In Los Incas: Arte y símbolos, edited by Franklin Pease G. Y., Craig Morris, Julián I. Santillana, et al., pp. 215–261. Banco de Crédito del Perú, Lima. Text: 242
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 987-989
1925 Kreichgauer, P. Dam. Bibliograpie: Nordenskiöld: The Secret of the Quipu. Anthropos 20:1193-1194. Text: 1194
1926 Kreichgauer, P. Dam. Das Rätsel der Quipus. Anthropos 21:618-620. Text: 618; 619
1970 Mackey, Carol. Knot Records in Ancient and Modern Peru. PhD dissertation, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. Text: 212
1925 Nordenskiöld, Erland. Calculations with Years and Months in the Peruvian Quipus. Elanders, Gothenburg. Text: 28; 32; Figures: pl.7
1976 Radicati di Primeglio, Carlos. El sistema contable de los Incas: Yupana y Quipu. In Estudios sobre los quipus, edited by Gary Urton, pp. 265-354. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima. Text: 351
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: 297
2006 Urton, Gary. Censos registrados en cordeles con ‘amarres’: Padrones poblacionales pre-hispánicos y coloniales tempranos en los khipu Inka. Revista Andina 42:153–196. Text: 168; 171
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. Text: 189; 261