QU004

Tall View Khipu Notes Exist - See Below

Original Author: Kylie Quave Museum: Dallas Museum of Art Museum Number: B378/1989.W.2471 Provenance: Inka, Late Horizon Region: Unknown

Total Number of Cords: 65 Number of Ascher Cord Colors: 10 Benford Match: 0.519 Similar Khipu:  Previous  Next Datafile: QU004

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Khipu Notes

Cord Notes

Primary Cord is severed after p55
Cords labeled as "blue" are rather green. Faded or originally green.
There are 2 registers of knots on the cords and they seem to lie on the same plane from pendant to pendant.
This is a fragment of a larger khipu.
The way in which we have described the object above could be backwards; there is no knotted or plied main cord to end to judge orientation.
Some strings are bent as if once knotted differently.
"3" is the most common knot value on a cord. Other than that, no units digit goes above "5" and the 10s values range from 10-35.
Two "place marker" strings in this khipu - not sure of use.