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Original Name: AS108
Original Author: Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum: Museum für Völkerkunde,
Museum Number: VA16143
Provenance: Between Ica and Pisco
Region: Unknown
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# of Cords: 42 (34p, 8s)
# of Unique Cord Colors: 4
Benford Match: 0.7467
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...): 2 (2, 0, 0, 0,...)
Similar Khipu: Previous (AS085) Next (UR1162A)
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UR1108
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Ascher Databook Notes:
- This khipu is one of several acquired by the Museum in 1904 with provenance between Ica and Pisco. For a discussion of them, see UR1098.
- By spacing, there are 17 pairs of pendants. In each pair, the first is W and the second LB.
- The values on the pendants and subsidiaries are all 0-5 with 1 exception. The exception is a value of 17.
- The number 17 is prominent on this khipu. There are 17 pairs of pendants; the value 17 is the exception to the range of values; prior to the value 17 (on pendant 13), there are a total of 17 pendant and subsidiary cords; and after the value 17 (on pendant 13), the sum of the values on the second pendant in each pair is 17.
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| Bibliography: |
Bibliography for UR1108/KH0122:
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Author |
Title |
Pages |
| 1978 |
Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. |
Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. |
687-689; 725-728 |
| 1994 |
Urton, Gary. |
New Twist in an Old Yarn: Variation in Knot Directionality in the Inka Khipus. Baessler-Archiv Neue Folge 42:271-305. |
299 |
| 2011 |
Urton, Gary, and Carrie J. Brezine. |
Khipu Typologies. In Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America, edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone and Gary Urton, pp. 319–352. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington. |
348 |
| 2017 |
Urton, Gary. |
Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. |
261 |
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