Catalog: KH0669 (QU023)

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Aliases:   QU023
Contributors:  Kylie Quave
Museum:  Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Museum Number:  2002.1.130
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown

# of Groups & Cords:   7 Groups, 32 Cords - (31p, 1s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  16
Benford Match:  0.6122
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  5 (3, 0, 1, 0,...)
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KH0669 (QU023)

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KH0669

Notes:

This Khipu is part of a 3 khipu study including KH0669, KH0670, and KH0671, by Kylie Quave, as part of her 2005 Emory College undergraduate thesis An Empire Written in String: Inka and Inka-related Khipu in Context

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Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0669 (QU023):

Year	Author	Title	Pages
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
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