UR087/KH0323 - Catalog Information

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Original Author:  Carrie Brezine
Museum:  Museo Temple Radicati, Lima, Peru
Museum Number:  6
Provenance:  Santa
Region:  Unknown

# of Cords:   370 (293p, 13t, 64s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  23
Benford Match:  0.8548
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  101 (37, 7, 55, 0,...)
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UR087/KH0323

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UR087

Notes:

This khipu is part of a set (UR087, UR088, UR089, UR090, UR091, UR092) that were analyzed by Manual Medrano in his article Toward the Decipherment of a Set of Mid-Colonial Khipus from the Santa Valley, Coastal Peru.

1. Top cords. Top cords are fastened through the pendant attachments (diagram on field notes). The doubled end of the top cord is passed through the half-hitches of the pendants; the free end of the top cord is then passed through its doubled end. In the final configuration, the doubled end of the top cord may be pointing towards the left (dbld end went through from L to R) or right (dbld end went through from R to L). These are designated, respectively, R and L, the R to be distinguished from the R meaning recto.
2. Markers. Markers on this khipu are short lengths of cotton cord, same construction as pendants, attached the same way as pendants, but pointing upwards in the same direction as the top cords.

Bibliography:

Bibliography for UR087/KH0323:

Year	Author	Title	Pages
2014	Cherkinsky, Alexander, and Gary Urton.	Radiocarbon Chronology of Andean Khipus. Open Journal of Archaeometry 2(5260):32-36.	34
2024	FitzPatrick, MacKinley.	New Insights on Cord Attachment and Social Hierarchy in Six Khipus from the Santa Valley, Peru. Ethnohistory, 71(4), pp.443-469. DOI: 10.1215/00141801-11266328	throughout
2016	Hyland, Sabine.	How Khipus Indicated Labour Contributions in an Andean Village: An Explanation of Colour Banding, Seriation and Ethnocategories. Journal of Material Culture 21(4):490-509.	503-504
1970	Mackey, Carol.	Knot Records in Ancient and Modern Peru. PhD dissertation, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.	52; 61; 211
2018	Medrano, Manuel, and Gary Urton.	Toward the Decipherment of a Set of Mid- Colonial Khipus from the Santa Valley, Coastal Peru. Ethnohistory 65(1):1-23.	7-20
2020	Medrano, Manuel.	Información sobre tributos en un documento colonial y en un archivo de khipus del Valle del Santa, Perú. In Khipus, edited by Cecilia Pardo, pp. 146-157. Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima.	throughout
2024	Medrano, Manuel and Ashok Khosla.	How Can Data Science Contribute to Understanding the Khipu Code? Latin American Antiquity. Published online 2024:1-20. doi:10.1017/laq.2024.5	8
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.	368
1949	Radicati di Primeglio, Carlos.	Introducción al estudio de los quipus. Documenta, Revista de la Sociedad Peruana de Historia 2(1):244-339.	277
1964	Radicati di Primeglio, Carlos.	La seriación como posible clave para descifrar losquipus extranumerales. In Estudios sobre los quipus, edited by Gary Urton, pp. 155–264. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima.	158; 163-170; 199-207
1976	Radicati di Primeglio, Carlos.	El sistema contable de los Incas: Yupana y Quipu. In Estudios sobre los quipus, edited by Gary Urton, pp. 265-354. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima.	334; 352
1984	Radicati di Primeglio, Carlos.	The quipus of the Regional Museum of Ica. In Peru durch die Jahrtausende: Kunst und Kultur im Lande der Inka, pp. 147-151. Amt der NÖ Landesregierung, Wien.	147
1987	Radicati di Primeglio, Carlos.	Hacia una tipificación de los quipus. In Quipu y Yupana: Colección de Escritos, edited by Carol Mackey, Hugo Pereyra, Carlos Radicati, Humerto Rodriguez, Oscar Valverde, pp. 89-95. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Lima.	92
2017	Urton, Gary.	Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin.	220-244; 264