UR1127/KH0142 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Name:   AS127,N7
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin,
Museum Number:  VA63042(A)
Provenance:  Nazca
Region:  Unknown
# of Cords:   6
# of Unique Cord Colors:  3
Benford Match:  0.7606
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  2 (1, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   UR1127/KH0142
Pendant Pendant Sum
Group Group Sum
DataFile:
UR1127

Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. AS127, AS128, and UR1176 were acquired by the Museum in 1933 with provenance Nazca. AS127 and AS128 are loosely tied together.
  2. By spacing, the khipu is one group of 5 pendants preceded by a single pendant. The single pendant is also distinguished by being a different color than the pendants in the group. The value of the single pendant is the sum of the values on the pendants in the group.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for UR1127/KH0142:

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 829; 844
1981 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 89
2005 Ascher, Marcia. How Can Spin, Ply, and Knot Direction Contribute to Understanding the Quipu Code? Latin American Antiquity 16(1):99–111. 102
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
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 261