UR090/KH0326

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Khipu Notes Exist - See Below

Original Author: Carrie Brezine
Museum: Museo Temple Radicati
Museum Number: 3
Provenance: Unknown
Region: Santa
Total Number of Cords: 131
Number of Ascher Cord Colors: 21
Benford Match: 0.902
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Datafile: UR090

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Khipu Notes

This khipu is part of a set (UR087, UR088, UR089, UR090, UR091, UR092) that were analyzed by Manual Medrano in his article Toward the Decipherment of a Set of Mid-Colonial Khipus from the Santa Valley, Coastal Peru.

2. There is quite a bit of breakage and disintegration on this khipu, especially around the dark brown colors.
3. By looking at the tops of the pendants it appears that there is significant fading.

Primary Cord Notes:The dark brown color is disintegrated. At 45.0 cm two of the plies are tied off in a knot. Cord has four components: W - W - AB - KB, all barber poled together.
The dark brown color is disintegrated. At 45.0 cm two of the plies are tied off in a knot. Cord has four components: W - W - AB - KB, all barber poled together.