QU004/KH0592 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Name:   QU04
Original Author:  Kylie Quave
Museum:  Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
Museum Number:  B378/1989.W.2471
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Inka, Late Horizon
# of Cords:   65 (55p, 10s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  11
Benford Match:  0.5195
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  3 (1, 0, 0, 2,...)
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   QU004/KH0592
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QU004

Notes:

Cord Notes


Primary Cord is severed after p55
Cords labeled as "blue" are rather green. Faded or originally green.
There are 2 registers of knots on the cords and they seem to lie on the same plane from pendant to pendant.
This is a fragment of a larger khipu.
The way in which we have described the object above could be backwards; there is no knotted or plied main cord to end to judge orientation.
Some strings are bent as if once knotted differently.
"3" is the most common knot value on a cord. Other than that, no units digit goes above "5" and the 10s values range from 10-35.
Two "place marker" strings in this khipu - not sure of use.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for QU004/KH0592:

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. 246
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 262