QU023 - Catalog Information

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Original Author:  Kylie Quave
Museum:  Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Museum Number:  2002.1.130
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown

# of Cords:   32 (31p, 1s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  16
Benford Match:  0.6122
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  5 (3, 0, 1, 0,...)
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QU023

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Notes:

This Khipu is part of a 3 khipu study including QU023, QU024, and QU025, by Kylie Quave, as part of her 2005 Emory College undergraduate thesis An Empire Written in String: Inka and Inka-related Khipu in Context QU023 Photograph

Image by Kylie Quave, with permission.

Bibliography:

Bibliography for QU023:

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