Catalog: KH0182 (UR1165, AS165)

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Aliases:   UR1165, AS165
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA42563
Provenance:  Pachacamac
Region:  Unknown
# of Groups & Cords:   6 Groups, 21 Cords - (19p, 2s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  5
Benford Match:  0.7272
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  4 (1, 0, 2, 0,...)
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   KH0182 (UR1165, AS165)
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KH0182

Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1907 with provenance Pachacamac. For the others in this group, see KH0110.
  2. By spacing there are 6 groups of 5, 4,3, 3, 2, 2 pendants each.
  3. In each of the 6 groups, the last two pendants are colored W, DB. These 6 pairs are related in numerical value as well as color. The values of the last pendant and next to last pendant in the first group are the sums of the last and next to last pendant values respectively in the remaining five groups.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0182 (UR1165, AS165):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 680; 1010-1011
2005 Ascher, Marcia. How Can Spin, Ply, and Knot Direction Contribute to Understanding the Quipu Code? Latin American Antiquity 16(1):99–111. 104
2006 Pereyra Sánchez, Hugo. Descripción de los quipus del Museo de Sitio de Pachacamac. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica, Lima. 14
1994 Urton, Gary. New Twist in an Old Yarn: Variation in Knot Directionality in the Inka Khipus. Baessler-Archiv Neue Folge 42:271-305. 296
2014 Urton, Gary. Quipus de Pachamac. Ministerio de Cultura, Lima. 44
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 123; 261