UR1148/KH0164

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Original Name: AS148 Original Author: Marcia & Robert Ascher Museum: Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin Museum Number: VA44866B Provenance: Unknown Region: Ocucaje

Total Number of Cords: 20 Number of Ascher Cord Colors: 5 Benford Match: 0.917 Similar Khipu:  Previous  Next Datafile: UR1148

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Khipu Notes

Ascher Databook Notes:

1. UR1147-UR1149 are associated in that they were all designated by the same Museum number. They were acquired by the Museum in 1907 with provenance Ocucaje. For a comparison of them, see UR1147.
2. By spacing, the khipu is separated into 3 parts. Part 1 is 2 pairs of pendants and parts 2 and 3 are eac h 4 pairs of pendants.
3. The values in part 1 are the sums of values in parts 2 and 3. Assuming that the value of P2 is 2061 and the value of P13 is 379, with an exception of 1 in 1 digit, the first pair in part 1 are the sums, position by position, of the pairs in part 2, and the second pair in part 1 are the sums of the pairs in part 3, Namely:
   
   \[ \sum\limits_{i=1}^{4} P_{2ij} = P_{11j}\;\;\;for\;j=(1,2) \]
   \[ \sum\limits_{i=1}^{4} P_{3ij} = P_{12j}\;\;\;for\;j=(1,2) \]
   where P_kij is the value of the pendant in the j^th position of the i^th group of the k^th part.
4. In all 10 pairs, the value of the second pendant is larger than the first. It is also larger than the first value in the next pair. Thus:
   
   P_2i > P_2i-1 i=(1,...,10) and
   P_2i > P_2i+1 i=(1,...,9)
   
   where P_i is the value of the i^th pendant on the khipu.