Appendices
The following appendices consist of little “experiments” on the database, to investigate proposed theories about khipu construction.
| Name | Purpose |
|---|---|
| 01-Untied Knots | An investigation of untied knots and their magnitude |
| 02-Database Completeness | An investigation of the completeness of records/khipu elements (cord spin, cord attachment, knot-spin, etc.) that are recorded in the Khipu Field Guide |
| 03-Monte Carlo Pendant Pendant Sum | A Monte Carlo simulation of Pendant Pendant sums to examine statistical likelihood |
| 04-Clindaniel Inkawasi | Replication and examination of Dr. Jon Clindaniel’s results in his PhD. thesis at Harvard |
| 05-Rounded Khipus | An investigation of khipus whose cord values are divisible by 10. |
| 06 - Siblings of KH0468-UR231 | A preliminary search for UR231’s match. |
| 07 - Searching For Duplicate Khipus | A preliminary search for duplicate khipus. |
| 08 - Khipus With Kaytes | A preliminary investigation of khipus that have kaytes. |
| 09 - Sorting and Searching for Khipus by Image Similarity | An experimental approach to identifying khipus using image similarity. |
| 10 - Broken Khipus | Searching for khipus with broken cords. |
| 11 - Cord Value Hierarchy | Evaluating cord values by banded vs seriated |
| 12 - Replicating Purucucho | Replicating Information Control in the Palace of Puruchuco - An Accounting Hierarchy in a Khipu Archive from Coastal Peru by Gary Urton and Carrie J. Brezine. |
| 13 - Cosine Similarity Matrix | A Demonstration of Sorting Data Two Dimensionally using the Cosine Similarity Distance metric |