QU006/KH0594 - Catalog Information

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Statistics:
Original Name:   QU06
Original Author:  Kylie Quave
Museum:  Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
Museum Number:  B384/1989.W.2260
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Inka, Late Horizon
# of Cords:   41 (18p, 23s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  15
Benford Match:  0.137
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   QU006/KH0594
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QU006

Notes:
Fragmentary khipu with subsidiary cords
This khipu is very damaged and fragile -- many broken and unattached cords. Therefore, it is difficult to analyze the strings.
Khipu fragment. One plied end but other ends abruptly after a pendant -- could be missing pendants.
Includes 2 scrap packages
A = 1 fragment; B = 10 fragments
Constructed of cotton and some other plant fiber. All material identifications were done by sight alone.
5 groups of pendants along main cord, but could be more missing because in such poor condition.
Several of the cords that are long enough for it to be accepted that they did not once have knots, carry a NULL value of knots.
Each subsidiary group has a mon bl string.
Groups 3 and 4 both have 8 subsidiaries on one of their pendants and Group 5 has 7 subsidiaries.
These are unusually high numbers of subsidiaries per pendant.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for QU006/KH0594:

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. 244
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 262