Catalog: KH0590 (QU002, QU02)

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Aliases:   QU002, QU02
Contributors:  Kylie Quave
Museum:  Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
Museum Number:  B376,1983.W.2172
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Inka, Late Horizon

# of Groups & Cords:   10 Groups, 91 Cords - (85p, 6s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  8
Benford Match:  0.5601
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  39 (12, 7, 18, 0,...)
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KH0590 (QU002, QU02)

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Notes:

Beginning with Pendant 73, the cords seem to be in a position where they would not hang below main cord but rather "stand" like a top cord.
First pendant in every group has two decimals and a knot value higher than any of its pendants except Group 2.
Lowest knot value cord is always last in group except in Group 6.
Groups 5 and 6 both have knot total of 38. Total knot values from Group 1 to Group 6 get progressively greater. 218, 125, 69, 59, 38, 38.
Groups 3, 4, and 5 share a color pattern: 2 YB 2 AB, 5 YB.

Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0590 (QU002, QU02):

Year	Author	Title	Pages
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: 242
2017	Urton, Gary.	Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin.	Text: 262