Catalog: KH0348 (UR112)

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Aliases:   UR112
Contributors:  Gary Urton
Museum:  Museo Temple Radicati, Lima, Peru
Museum Number:  unnumbered
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown 		# of Groups & Cords:   19 Groups, 76 Cords - 76p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  8
Benford Match:  0.7617
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  28 (11, 5, 4, 0,...)
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   KH0348 (UR112)
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KH0348
Notes:
Camelid khipu with canutos. Significant insect damage at one end. Khipu has been kept in a large cedar-lined box. Braided primary cord.
Groups 19 and 20 have been reconstructed as "best guesses." The strings are no longer connected with the canutos. It is possible that pendant 76 belongs with canuto 16.
This is a canuto khipu, with all of its cords tied in bundles to the primary cord.
This khipu has been reconstructed using information from Jon Clindaniel's DASH thesis notes at Harvard. Cord cluster information is missing and has been defaulted to one cord per cluster.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0348 (UR112):

Year Author Title Pages
2025 Clindaniel, Jon. Colorful Insights from an AI Khipukamayuq. PREPRINT v2. Text: 21
2025 FitzPatrick, Mackinley. Primary Questions: A Survey of Inka-Style Khipu Primary Cords. PREPRINT. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/hqkcj_v1 Text: 26
2021 Medrano, Manuel. Quipus: Mil años de historia anudada en los Andes y su futuro digital. Planeta, Lima. Text: 47
2022 Medrano, M.A. The promise of Andean khipu transcriptions: a multi-scale investigation (Doctoral dissertation, University of St Andrews). Text: 105-106, 107
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: 364; Figures: 365
1997 Pereyra S., Hugo. Los quipus con cuerdas entorchadas. In Arqueología, antropología e historia en los Andes: Homenaje a María Rostworowski, edited by Rafael Varón Gabai and Javier Flores Espinoza, pp. 187–197. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima. Text: 193-194
1990 Radicati di Primeglio, Carlos. El cromatismo de los quipus: Significado del quipu de canutos. In Quipu y Yupana: Colección de Escritos, edited by Carol Mackey, Hugo Pereyra, Carlos Radicati, Humerto Rodriguez, Oscar Valverde, pp. 39-50. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Lima. Text: 45-46; 50; Figures: pl (p.50A)
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. Text: 264