UR053B/KH0284 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Author:  Carrie Brezine
Museum:  Museo Central - Banco Central de Reserva,
Museum Number:  ATE 3517
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown
# of Cords:   54 (36p, 18s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  5
Benford Match:  0.9204
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  3 (0, 0, 3, 0,...)
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   UR053B/KH0284
Colored Pendant Sum
DataFile:
UR053B

Notes:
Part of a set of 5 khipu tied together--see notes for UR053A. The primary cord of this khipu is tied to khipu D, C and A at 13.0 cm.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for UR053B/KH0284:

Year Author Title Pages
1999 Arellano Hoffmann, Carmen. Quipu y tocapu: Sistemas de comunicación inca. In Los Incas: Arte y símbolos, edited by Franklin Pease G. Y., Craig Morris, Julián I. Santillana, et al., pp. 215–261. Banco de Crédito del Perú, Lima. -
2002 Burns Glynn, William. Decodificación de Quipus. Banco Central de Reserva del Perú, Lima. -
2019 Milillo, Lucrezia. Andean khipus in Italian collections - Morphological description and ethnohistorical investigation. Masters thesis, School of Humanities, University of Bologna. 84-85
2020 Pancorvo Salicetti, Anel, (editor). Quipus y quipucamayoc: Codificación y administración en el antiguo Perú. Apus Graph Ediciones, Lima. Salicetti, Anel, (editor). Quipus y quipucamayoc: Codificación y administración en el antiguo Perú. Apus Graph Ediciones, Lima. 300
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
2003 Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art. Quipu: Counting by knotting in the Inka Empire. Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art and Harvard University. -
2007 Urton, Gary. Ancient writing: deciphering the knotted strigs of the Incas. In Discovery! Unearthing the new treasures of Archaeology, edited by Brian M. Fagan, pp. 244-245. Thames & Hudson, New York. -
2015 Urton, Gary. Inka administration in Tawantinsuyu by means of the knotted cords. In The Cambridge World History: Volume 3, Early Cities in comparative perspective, edited by Norman Yoffee, pp. 181-206. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 187-193
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 146-150; 151; 263