UR1121/KH0135 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Name:   AS121
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA42538
Provenance:  Pachacamac
Region:  Unknown
# 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,...)
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Indexed Pendant Sum
DataFile:
UR1121

Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. This is one of several khipus acquired b y the Museum in 1907 with provenance Pachacamac. For a list of them, see UR1097.
  2. 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.
  3. 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).
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, Tecnología 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 -
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