Catalog: KH0197 (UR1180, AS180)

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Aliases:   UR1180, AS180
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnologische Museum), Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA47126
Provenance:  Ica
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   3 Groups, 35 Cords - (27p, 8s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  6
Benford Match:  0.9108
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0197 (UR1180, AS180)
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KH0197
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. Construction note: The main cord is finished by being bent back on itself and wound with B colored cord.
  2. This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1907 with provenance Ica. For a list of them, see KH00110.
  3. By spacing, the khipu is separated into 3 groups. The groups are united by having all pendants the same color: group 1 pendants are B; group 2 is W; and, with 1 exception, group 3 is W.
  4. The values within each group are similar in order of magnitude and differ from the other groups' values: group 3 has values 1-30; group 2 values are 96-670; and the non-zero values in group 1 are 1200-3765.
  5. Some values in groups 1 and 2 are sums of values in group 2. Specifically:

    P2,2 = P2,4 + P2,12 = P2,7 + P2,9 + P2,10 + P2,11
    P2,10 = P2,9 + P2,11
    P1,1 = P2,2 + P2,7 + P2,9 + P2,10 + P2,12
    P1,5 = P2,2 + P2,3 + P2,7 = P2,3 + P2,4 + P2,7 + P2,12
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0197 (UR1180, AS180):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 698; 1098-1100; Figures: 1109
2020 Hyland, Sabine. Subject Indicators and the Decipherment of Genre on Andean Khipus. Anthropological Linguistics 62(2):137-158. Text: 144
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: 299
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: 96, 97