Catalog: KH0211 (AS193)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS193
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
Museum Number:  41.2/6700
Provenance:  Ica
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   1 Groups, 8 Cords - 8p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  1
Benford Match:  0.8908
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  1 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0211 (AS193)
Group Sum Bands
DataFile:
KH0211
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. KH0208-KH0215 are associated in that they were purchased by the Museum in 1969 from Louis Slavitz. Their provenance is near Callengo, Ica Valley. They are compared following KH0209.
  2. The only values that appear on this khipu are 0-5.
  3. The sum of the first 4 pendant values equals the sum of the last 4 pendant values. Moreover:

    P1+P2 = P5+P6, and P3+P4 = P7+P8.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0211 (AS193):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 1129; 1134
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. Text: 262
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, 101