Catalog: KH0209 (AS191)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS191
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
Museum Number:  41.2/6698
Provenance:  Ica
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   2 Groups, 7 Cords - 7p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  1
Benford Match:  0.3773
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0209 (AS191)
DataFile:
KH0209
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. KH0208-KH0215 were purchased by the Museum in 1969 from Louis Slavitz. Their provenance is near Callengo, Ica Valley. They compare as follows:
    1. KH0209 and KH0211 are each basically one group; all cords are W; they have no subsidiaries.
    2. KH0212 and KH0213 have similar colors, construction form, and values. For details see KH0212.
    3. KH0210 and KH0214 use similar colors. Both contain B, BB, and W and the mixtures B:W and BB:W.
    4. The colors used on KH0215 (AB, KB) do not appear on the other khipus.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0209 (AS191):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 1129; 1130
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 262