Catalog: KH0195 (AS178)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS178
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA37859B
Provenance:  near Lima
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   8 Groups, 30 Cords - (29p, 1s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  5
Benford Match:  0.918
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  11 (5, 0, 3, 0,...)
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   KH0195 (AS178)
Pendant Pendant Sum
Colored Pendant Sum
Group Sum Bands
Group Group Sum
Ascher Decreasing Group
DataFile:
KH0195
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. By spacing, there is 1 pendant cord and 7 groups of 4 pendants each. The first 3 groups are separated f rom the last 4 groups.
  4. Each group has the same color pattern: W, B, LB, KB.
  5. The values in the last 4 groups are all 0-18, while the values in the first 3 groups are 10-70.
  6. The value on pendant 1 is the order of magnitude of the sum of the values in group 1. The values in group 1 are the order of magnitude of the sums of values in the corresponding positions in the last 4 groups. Too many cords are brokento know the relationship of the values with certainty.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0195 (AS178):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 849-850; 1092-1094
1981 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 89
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