Catalog: KH0176 (AS160)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS160
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA16138(B)
Provenance:  Between Ica and Pisco
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   4 Groups, 23 Cords - 23p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  6
Benford Match:  0.8248
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  5 (4, 1, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0176 (AS160)
Pendant Pendant Sum
Indexed Pendant Sum
DataFile:
KH0176
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. Another pendant, just after pendant 5, was probably present as indicated by the discoloration on the main cord.
  2. This was one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1904 with provenance between Ica and Pisco. For a discussion of them, see KH0111.
  3. By spacing, the khipu consists of 4 groups of 6 pendants each. Each group has the same color pattern.
  4. In each group, the value in position 3 is a multiple of the value in position 2. The value of position 3 is also a multiple of 10.
  5. Seventeen of the 21 values on the khipu are multiples of 3 or 5. The different multiples present are:

    3 times i where i=0 to 5 but i≠3
    5 times i where i=1 to 6 but i≠5
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0176 (AS160):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 687-689; 996-997
2005 Urton, Gary. Khipu Archives: Duplicate Accounts and Identity Labels in the Inka Knotted String Records. Latin American Antiquity 16(2):147–167. 167
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 261