UR1033B/KH0036 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Name:   AS033B
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Museum Number:  41.52.30/293B
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown 		# of Cords:   18
# of Unique Cord Colors:  6
Benford Match:  0.8477
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  1 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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Ascher Decreasing Group
DataFile:
UR1033B
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. Construction note: R/W does not represent R joined to W. The color R appears and then disappears on the single cord . Where GG/W and AB/W appear, they do represent joins, but the place where the cords are joined has not been recorded by us.
  2. This khipu is part of the collection of 7 connected khipus numbered UR1033A-UR1033G.
  3. This khipu has 6 groups of 3 pendants each by spacing . With the exception of the first pendant in group 1, the colors are consistent with position in group : AB/W, R/W, GG/W.
  4. The only values on the pendants are 2-10 excluding 4 and 8.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for UR1033B/KH0036:

Year Author Title Pages
1975 Ascher, Marcia and Robert Ascher. Quipu as a visible language. Visible Language 9(4):329-356. -
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 155; 156-157
1981 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 15; 68
1986 Ascher, Marcia. Mathematical Ideas of the Incas.’ In Native American Mathematics, edited by Michael P. Closs, pp. 261–289. University of Texas Press, Austin. -
2014 Cherkinsky, Alexander, and Gary Urton. Radiocarbon Chronology of Andean Khipus. Open Journal of Archaeometry 2(5260):32-36. 34
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. 440
2024 Pierre Louis, Gusnie. Reflecting on Khipu Studies in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology: Khipu 41-52-30/2938. In Situ: News and Events of the Harvard Standing Committee on Archaeology, Spring 2024:27-28. throughout
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. 245
2013 Salomon, Frank. The Twisting Paths of Recall: Khipu (Andean cord notation) as artifact. In Writing as Material Practice: Substance, surface and medium, edited by Kathryn E. Piquette and Ruth D. Whitehouse, pp. 15-43. Ubiquity Press, London. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bai.b 38
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 263