UR069/KH0306 - Catalog Information

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Statistics:

Original Author:  Carrie Brezine
Museum:  Puruchuco Museum,
Museum Number:  s/n
Provenance:  Huaquerones
Region:  Puruchuco

# of Cords:   33 (32p, 1s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  14
Benford Match:  0.7256
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  8 (8, 0, 0, 0,...)
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UR069/KH0306

Pendant Pendant Sum

DataFile:

UR069

Notes:

With doubled end on the left and pendants facing away from viewer, khipu was rolled up left to right, making an S spiral bundle.

Cord construction is clear at the ends of some raveled cords. Eg, 2 ply cords of blue, lt brown, and white make up one cord component, which is doubled and plied into final cord.

Bibliography:

Bibliography for UR069/KH0306:

Year	Author	Title	Pages
1970	Mackey, Carol.	Knot Records in Ancient and Modern Peru. PhD dissertation, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.	65-82; 213; 220-223
2017	Urton, Gary.	Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin.	264