QU003/KH0591 - Catalog Information

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Statistics:

Original Name:   QU03
Original Author:  Kylie Quave
Museum:  Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
Museum Number:  B388/1983.W.2173
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Inka, Late Horizon

# of Cords:   44 (40p, 4t)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  10
Benford Match:  0.4741
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  1 (1, 0, 0, 0,...)
Similar Khipu:  Previous (QU002)  Next (HP042)

QU003/KH0591

Pendant Pendant Sum

DataFile:

QU003

Notes:

Tricolor mottling in Group 1 is anomalous.
The pink in Group 1 is also unusual.
P37 has a cord end emerging out of last single knot, but pendant continues. 2 strings tied together?
First single knot in the 10s place of P28 is in Z direction; all others are S direction.
There is a color in some pendants that is somewhere between dark brown and "black."
Placement of long knots in Group 5 is inconsistent.
There are 4 top cords -- one detached.
Group 1 knot total = 140; Grp 2 = 112 with 202 top cord; then another top cord with no context at 403; Grp 3=?; Group 4 = null; Grp 5 =1674.

Bibliography:

Bibliography for QU003/KH0591:

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