UR298 - Catalog Information

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Original Author:  Gary Urton
Museum:  Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, USA
Museum Number:  PC.WBC.2016.071
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown
# of Cords:   285 (202p, 1t, 82s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  31
Benford Match:  0.7548
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  81 (58, 0, 6, 17,...)
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Notes:
Khipu Field Guide Notes:
This khipu was transcribed by Ashok Khosla, from copies of notes left by Gary Urton at Dumbarton Oaks, and found by Mack FitzPatrick.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for UR298:

Year Author Title Pages
2002 Conklin, William J. A Khipu Information String Theory. In Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu, edited by Jeffrey Quilter and Gary Urton, pp. 53-86. University of Texas Press, Austin. 73
2024 FitzPatrick, MacKinley. New Insights on Cord Attachment and Social Hierarchy in Six Khipus from the Santa Valley, Peru. Ethnohistory, 71(4), pp.443-469. DOI: 10.1215/00141801-11266328 448
2006 Hardman, Chris Mackey. Unraveling an Inca mystery. Americas 58(5):48-55 -
2024 Milillo, Lucrezia. Inka Khipus, Thread Wrappings and Subject Markers. In IX International Conference on Pre-Columbian and Amerindian Textiles / 9th International Conference on Pre-Columbian and Amerindian Textiles, Museo delle Culture, Milan, 2022, pp. 146-161. Zea Books, Lincoln, Nebraska. 153
2019 Splitstoser, Jeffrey. Written in Knots. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington. 15