UR1116/KH0130 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Name:   AS116
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA47125
Provenance:  Ica
Region:  Unknown 		# of Cords:   13
# of Unique Cord Colors:  3
Benford Match:  0.665
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   UR1116/KH0130
DataFile:
UR1116
Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1907 with provenance Ica. For a list of them, see UR1100.
  2. With the exception of the 11th pendant, the group of 12 pendants alternate in color: W, SB or AB.
  3. The values of the alternate pendants in the group form 2 descending sequences (with the exception of the 11th pendant). In each pair, the odd position pendant is greater in value than the next pendant. That is:

    P2i-1 ≥ P2i+1  for i=1, 2, 3, 4
    P2i ≥ P2i+2    for i=1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Pi > Pi+1       for i=1, 3, 5, 7, 11
  4. Of the 12 values in the group, 6 are of value 37 or above, and 6 are of value less than 37. Each of those greater than or equal to 37 can be expressed as the sum of other values in the group:

      37 = 2+9+26
      52 = 2+2+2+9+37
      64 = 27+37=(2+9+26)+27
      81 = 2+27+52
      84 = 2+2+2+26+52
    170 = 37+52+81=(2+9+26)+52+81

  5. Three of the 12 values are perfect squares (9, 64, 81) and 3 of the values are powers of 3 (32, 33, 34 ).
Bibliography:

Bibliography for UR1116/KH0130:

Year Author Title Pages
2009 Artzi, Bat-Ami. The secret of the knot: khipu No. 936 from the Maiman collection. Masters thesis, Hebrew University. 50
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 698; 787-788
1989 Ascher, Marcia, Robert Ascher, Mariusz S. Ziółkowski, and Robert M. Sadowski. Are There Numbers in the Sky?." In Time and Calendars in the Inca Empire, edited by Mariusz S. Ziólkowski and Robert M. Sadowski. BAR International Series 479, Oxford. pp.35-48 42; 43
2002 Burns Glynn, William. Decodificación de Quipus. Banco Central de Reserva del Perú, Lima. 131-143
2024 Thompson, Karen M. A Numerical Connection Between Two Khipus. Ñawpa Pacha, pp.1-22. 20
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
2004 Concordancias y afinidades en archivos de registros de Khipus procedentes de Chachapoyas e Ica, Perú = Matching accounts in the Khipu archives of Chachapoyas and Ica, Peru. In: Identidad y transformación en el Tawantinsuyu y en los Andes coloniales : perspectivas arqueológicas y etnohistóricas / Peter Kaulicke, Gary Urton y Ian Farrington, editores. Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Vol. 3, p. 289-303. (Boletín de arqueología PUCP ; no. 6-8) 294-296
2005 Urton, Gary. Khipu Archives: Duplicate Accounts and Identity Labels in the Inka Knotted String Records. Latin American Antiquity 16(2):147–167. 155; 156
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 261