Catalog: KH0596 (QU008, QU08)

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Aliases:   QU008, QU08
Contributors:  Kylie Quave
Museum:  Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
Museum Number:  B367,1983.W.2175
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Inka, Late Horizon

# of Groups & Cords:   2 Groups, 62 Cords - (21p, 41s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  21
Benford Match:  0.2945
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  3 (2, 0, 1, 0,...)
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KH0596 (QU008, QU08)

Pendant Pendant Sum

Colored Pendant Sum

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KH0596

Notes:

Khipu with subsidiary and tertiary cords
Includes 2 scrap packages
A = 1 fragment; B = 3 fragments
Blues here range from light, greenish blue to dark blue.
The browns have many variations in tone and it is difficult to characterize them by name.
There are tertiary cords, a few loose ones.
This is a whole khipu, relatively small
Dark brown stains on some pendants allude to possibility there were once subsidiaries on those.
A loose cord has cotton boll stuck to it
Lots of subsidiaries and blue throughout. Also, many different color types.
One anomalous knot: P15 has 4 single knots in S-direction -- not only opposite direction, but also situated in the units decimal position

Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0596 (QU008, QU08):

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
2022	Quave, Kylie E.	The Inka khipu. Smarthistory: The Center for Public Art History.	Figures: no page
2017	Urton, Gary.	Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin.	Text: 262