Catalog: KH0284 (UR053B)

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Aliases:   UR053B
Contributors:  Carrie Brezine
Museum:  Museo Central - Banco Central de Reserva, Lima, Peru
Museum Number:  ATE 3517
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown

# of Groups & Cords:   1 Groups, 54 Cords - (36p, 18s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  5
Benford Match:  0.9204
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  3 (0, 0, 3, 0,...)
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KH0284 (UR053B)

Colored Pendant Sum

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KH0284

Notes:

Part of a set of 5 khipu tied together--see notes for KH0283. The primary cord of this khipu is tied to khipu D, C and A at 13.0 cm.

Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0284 (UR053B):

Year	Author	Title	Pages
1999	Arellano Hoffmann, Carmen.	Quipu y tocapu: Sistemas de comunicación inca. In Los Incas: Arte y símbolos, edited by Franklin Pease G. Y., Craig Morris, Julián I. Santillana, et al., pp. 215–261. Banco de Crédito del Perú, Lima.	Figures: 228-229
2002	Burns Glynn, William.	Decodificación de Quipus. Banco Central de Reserva del Perú, Lima.	Figures: 61
2025	FitzPatrick, Mackinley.	Primary Questions: A Survey of Inka-Style Khipu Primary Cords. PREPRINT. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/hqkcj_v1	Text: 8
2019	Milillo, Lucrezia.	Andean khipus in Italian collections - Morphological description and ethnohistorical investigation. Masters thesis, School of Humanities, University of Bologna.	Text: 84-85; Figures: fig.45 (p.86)
2020	Pancorvo Salicetti, Anel, (editor). Quipus y quipucamayoc: Codificación y administración en el antiguo Perú. Apus Graph Ediciones, Lima.	Salicetti, Anel, (editor). Quipus y quipucamayoc: Codificación y administración en el antiguo Perú. Apus Graph Ediciones, Lima.	Text: 300; Figures: 301
2009	Quave, Kylie.	Confronting Anomaly in the Khipu Structure: Cultural and Individual Variations from Two Museum Collections. In Actas: IV Jornadas Internacionales sobre Textiles Precolombinos, edited by Victòria Solanilla Demestre, pp. 241-251. Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona.	Text: 246
2025	Salas Garcia, José Antonio.	La Interpretación Lingüística de los Quipus. Ernst & Young, Lima, Peru.	Text: 56-58; Figures: 57
2003	Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art.	Quipu: Counting by knotting in the Inka Empire. Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art and Harvard University.	Figures: 30
2007	Urton, Gary.	Ancient writing: deciphering the knotted strigs of the Incas. In Discovery! Unearthing the new treasures of Archaeology, edited by Brian M. Fagan, pp. 244-245. Thames & Hudson, New York.	Figures: 244
2015	Urton, Gary.	Inka administration in Tawantinsuyu by means of the knotted cords. In The Cambridge World History: Volume 3, Early Cities in comparative perspective, edited by Norman Yoffee, pp. 181-206. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge	Text: 187-193; Figures: fig.9.2 (p.188)
2017	Urton, Gary.	Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin.	Text: 146-150; 151; 263; Figures: fig.8.4 (p.148); pl.6>p.150