Catalog: KH0196 (UR1179, AS179)

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Statistics:
Aliases:   UR1179, AS179
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnologische Museum), Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA47123
Provenance:  Ica
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   10 Groups, 28 Cords - (27p, 1s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  8
Benford Match:  0.8317
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  2 (1, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0196 (UR1179, AS179)
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Ascher Decreasing Group
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KH0196
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1907 with provenance Ica. For a list of them, see KH00110.
  2. By spacing, the khipu is separated into 2 parts. The first part has 6 groups of 2-4 pendants each, and the second part has 4 groups of 3 pendants each.
  3. The first 3 groups of part 2 have the same color pattern: BB:W, W, W.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0196 (UR1179, AS179):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 698; 1095-1097
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: 298
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. Text: 261
2007 Witkowski, Olaf. Essai de décryptage des cordelettes quipus utilisées par les Incas comme moyen de communication: Un exemple d’ethno-cryptographie (Doctoral dissertation, Master’s thesis, Université Catholique de Louvain). Text: 97