UR1162A/KH0178 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Name:   AS162A
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA47106B
Provenance:  Ica
Region:  Unknown
# of Cords:   16
# of Unique Cord Colors:  4
Benford Match:  0.6738
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   UR1162A/KH0178
DataFile:
UR1162A

Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. Construction note: The B main cord is extended by a W main cord. The W main cord is formed into a large loop by being passed through its own twisted end. It has also been passed through the twisted end of the B main cord so that it dangles from the end of the B cord.\
  2. This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1907 with provenance Ica. For a list of these khipus, see UR1100.
  3. UR1161 and UR1162B are designated by the same Museum number. The main cord of UR1161 is looped in the same way as is the W main cord of UR1162B
Bibliography:

Bibliography for UR1162A/KH0178:

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 698; 999; 1000-1002
2005 Ascher, Marcia. How Can Spin, Ply, and Knot Direction Contribute to Understanding the Quipu Code? Latin American Antiquity 16(1):99–111. 110
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
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 -
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 261