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Original Name: AS121
Original Author: Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum: Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Germany
Museum Number: VA42538
Provenance: Pachacamac
Region: Unknown
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# of Cords: 281 (280p, 1s)
# of Unique Cord Colors: 3
Benford Match: 0.03652
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...): 4 (3, 1, 0, 0,...)
Similar Khipu: Previous (AS112) Next (AS019)
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UR1121
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Ascher Databook Notes:
- This is one of several khipus acquired b y the Museum in 1907 with provenance Pachacamac. For a list of them, see UR1097.
- By spacing, the khipu is separated into 2 parts. Part 1 consists of 10 subparts, each of which is 7 groups of 3 pendants. Each of the 70 groups has the same color pattern: W, B, W. Part 2 consists of 10 groups of 7 pendants each. The pendants in groups 1 and 10 are B, and those in groups 2-9 are BB.
- In part 1, all the pendants in the first 9 subparts are zero-valued (or blank). Similarly, in part 2, all the pendants in the first 9 groups are zero-valued (or blank).
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| Bibliography: |
Bibliography for UR1121/KH0135:
| Year |
Author |
Title |
Pages |
| 1975 |
Ascher, Marcia and Robert Ascher. |
Quipu as a visible language. Visible Language 9(4):329-356. |
344 |
| 1978 |
Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. |
Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. |
680; 800-803 |
| 1981 |
Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. |
Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. |
86 |
| 2006 |
Pereyra Sánchez, Hugo. |
Descripción de los quipus del Museo de Sitio de Pachacamac. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, TecnologÃa e Innovación Tecnológica, Lima. |
14 |
| 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 |
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 |
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| 2014 |
Urton, Gary. |
Quipus de Pachamac. Ministerio de Cultura, Lima. |
43 |
| 2017 |
Urton, Gary. |
Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. |
261 |
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