QU008/KH0596 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Name:   QU08
Original Author:  Kylie Quave
Museum:  Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
Museum Number:  B367/1983.W.2175
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Inka, Late Horizon
# of Cords:   62 (21p, 41s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  21
Benford Match:  0.2945
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  3 (2, 0, 1, 0,...)
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   QU008/KH0596
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QU008

Notes:
Khipu with subsidiary and tertiary cords
Includes 2 scrap packages
A = 1 fragment; B = 3 fragments
Blues here range from light, greenish blue to dark blue.
The browns have many variations in tone and it is difficult to characterize them by name.
There are tertiary cords, a few loose ones.
This is a whole khipu, relatively small
Dark brown stains on some pendants allude to possibility there were once subsidiaries on those.
A loose cord has cotton boll stuck to it
Lots of subsidiaries and blue throughout. Also, many different color types.
One anomalous knot: P15 has 4 single knots in S-direction -- not only opposite direction, but also situated in the units decimal position
Bibliography:

Bibliography for QU008/KH0596:

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