UR1154/KH0170 - Catalog Information

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Original Name:   AS154
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA37867A
Provenance:  near Lima
Region:  Unknown

# of Cords:   3
# of Unique Cord Colors:  3
Benford Match:  0.7594
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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UR1154/KH0170

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UR1154

Notes:

Ascher Databook Notes:

This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1907 with provenance near Lima. For a discussion of them, see UR1130.

Bibliography:

Bibliography for UR1154/KH0170:

Year	Author	Title	Pages
1978	Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher.	Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.	849-850; 977
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.	295
2017	Urton, Gary.	Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin.	261