AK001 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Author:  Saoirse Byrne, Di Hu & Ashok Khosla
Museum:  Privately held, Unknown
Museum Number:  52290
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown 		# of Cords:   39 (38p 1s)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  7
Benford Match:  0.947
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  8 (7, 0, 0, 0,...)
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AK001
Notes:
Fieldguide Notes:

This khipu was part of the Maiman collection, a set of khipus gathered from deaccesioning of the Haifa museum as well as other sources. Another khipu in the collection is referenced in Bat-ami Artzi's article The Secret of the Knot: Khipu No. 936 from the Maiman Collection. The collection is also described in the book Weaving the AfterLife.

The khipu has the following notable features:
  1. Appears to be a low-level mostly banded khipu, of good construction.
  2. Many plied cords, low-magnitude knots/cords, and a predominance of banding indicating a low level khipu.
  3. A looped set of pendant cords at the right, whose values are the sum of cords to the left (Left-handed sums). The leftmost looped pendant is a white cord, whose sum is the next two white pendants.
AK001 Photograph