Catalog: KH0194 (AS177)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS177
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA37859A
Provenance:  near Lima
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   6 Groups, 15 Cords - 15p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  2
Benford Match:  0.6111
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. Construction note: The khipu is made of animal hair.
  2. This is one of several khipu acquired by the Museum in 1907 with provenance near Lima. For a discussion of them, see KH00140.
  3. All pendants are the same color.
  4. A pendant fragment of the same color and value 3 5 is stored with the khipu. There is no place on the khipu from which it is apparently missing.
  5. Several pendants have multiple values. (See, for example, P6.)
  6. The value on the main cord (357) is probably the sum of the values on the pendants. (The value of the broken pendant, Pl, must be between 20 and 99. Hence, the sum of the values on all pendants is between 313 and 392.)
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0194 (AS177):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 849-850; 1090-1091
1994 Urton, Gary. New Twist in an Old Yarn: Variation in Knot Directionality in the Inka Khipus. Baessler-Archiv Neue Folge 42:271-305. 295
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 261