Catalog: KH0693 (MM020)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   MM020
Contributors:  Manuel Medrano
Museum:  Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
Museum Number:  69195
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown
# of Groups & Cords:   20 Groups, 89 Cords - (87p, 2s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  6
Benford Match:  0.6659
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  25 (17, 6, 1, 0,...)
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   KH0693 (MM020)
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KH0693

Notes:

Notes and Observations for Khipu KH0693


36: second set of 3S knots aligns with ones' place of other pendants on the khipu; counted as tens
40: repair knot aligned with tens' place
69: strand of animal hair of some sort interlaced at top of pendant
85: pendant broken immediately after 6th S knot

Primary Cord Notes


Primary Cord Thread Wrappings
W wrapping 15.0-16.0cm and 26.5-28.5cm
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0693 (MM020):

Year Author Title Pages
1969 Menninger, Karl. Number words and number symbols: a cultural history of numbers. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Figures: fig.87 (p.253)
1998 Nepomuceno, V. Dos quipus às contas multidimensionais. Revista do Conselho Regional de Contabilidade do Rio Grande do Sul, 95: 16-30 Figures: fig.9 (p.22)
1925 Nordenskiöld, Erland. The Secret of the Peruvian Quipus. Elanders, Gothenburg. Text: 4
2025 Thompson, Karen M. Connecting Objects and Literature: A Case Study with Khipus, the “Khipu-Biblio Cross-Reference.” Advances in Archaeological Practice, 13(2), 273–290. doi:10.1017/aap.2025.3 Text: 6