UR1104/KH0118 - Catalog Information

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Statistics:
Original Name:   UR1104,AS104,UR224
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Ethnologisches Museum,
Museum Number:  VA42527
Provenance:  Pachacamac
Region:  Central Coast, Peru 		# of Cords:   21
# of Unique Cord Colors:  2
Benford Match:  0.7348
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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UR1104
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1907 with provenance Pachacamac. For a list of the others, see UR1097.
  2. This khipu is also discussed by Nordenskiold(see Introduction).
  3. The values on the pendants in the first group differ, in order of magnitude, from the pendants in the other 3 groups. With one exception, the values in group 1 are 18000-37000, while the values in groups 2-4 are 1300-3400.
  4. Some values in the first group and some values in the first position of later groups are related to other values by additive multiples of 100. Specifically:
    \[ P_{14}\;=\;P_{16}+5300\;=\;P_{33}+22000 \]
    \[ P_{16}\;=\;P_{33}+16700 \]
    \[ P_{11}\;=\;P_{42}+1200\;=\;P_{44}+1900 \]
    \[ P_{21}\;=\;P_{35}+600 \]
    \[ P_{31}\;=\;P_{41}+400 \]
Bibliography:

Bibliography for UR1104/KH0118:

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1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 680; 713-714
2005 Ascher, Marcia. How Can Spin, Ply, and Knot Direction Contribute to Understanding the Quipu Code? Latin American Antiquity 16(1):99–111. 102-103; 110
2005 Brokaw, Galen. Toward Deciphering the Khipu. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 35(4)571–589. 587
2010 Chirinos Rivera, Andrés. Quipus del Tahuantinsuyo: Curacas, Incas y su saber matemático en el siglo XVI. Editorial Commentarios, Lima. 238; 247; 249-251; 340
1957 Day, Cyrus L. Knots and knot lore: quipus and other mnemonic knots. Western folklore 16:8-26. 21-22
1967 Day, Cyrus Lawrence. Quipus and Witches' Knots. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence. 20-21
1925 Kreichgauer, P. Dam. Bibliograpie: Nordenskiöld: The Secret of the Quipu. Anthropos 20:1193-1194. 1193; 1194
1926 Kreichgauer, P. Dam. Das Rätsel der Quipus. Anthropos 21:618-620. 618; 619
1927 Lenoir, Raymond. Le soulava et le quipo. Revue de l’Institut de Sociologie 7(3):477-526. 505-519
1970 Mackey, Carol. Knot Records in Ancient and Modern Peru. PhD dissertation, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. 212
2008 Moscovich, Viviana. Del Número al Cálculo En El Imperio Inca: ElLenguaje y Sus Representaciones. In Lenguajes Visuales de Los Incas, edited by Paola González Carvajal and Tamara L. Bray, pp. 91-101. BAR International Series. 96
2016 Moscovich, Viviana. El khipu y la yupana: Administración y contabilidad en el imperio Inca. Ediciones El Lector, Arequipa, Peru. 77
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1925 Nordenskiöld, Erland. Calculations with Years and Months in the Peruvian Quipus. Elanders, Gothenburg. 13; 18-21; 31-32
2006 Pereyra Sánchez, Hugo. Descripción de los quipus del Museo de Sitio de Pachacamac. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica, Lima. 14
1949 Radicati di Primeglio, Carlos. Introducción al estudio de los quipus. Documenta, Revista de la Sociedad Peruana de Historia 2(1):244-339. 261
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. 319; 351
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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 21
1994 Urton, Gary. New Twist in an Old Yarn: Variation in Knot Directionality in the Inka Khipus. Baessler-Archiv Neue Folge 42:271-305. 296
2003 Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art. Quipu: Counting by knotting in the Inka Empire. Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art and Harvard University. 53
2003 Urton, Gary. Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records. University of Texas Press, Austin. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/785397 83; 85-87; 171
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