AS020/KH0021 - Catalog Information

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Statistics:

Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USE
Museum Number:  SA4034
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown

# of Cords:   10 (10p)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  3
Benford Match:  0.8398
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  3 (1, 0, 0, 0,...)
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AS020/KH0021

Pendant Pendant Sum

Ascher Decreasing Group

DataFile:

AS020

Notes:

Fieldguide Notes:

This khipus has 2 interesting field-marks:

Each group is in (roughly) sorted descending order.
Each cord in the left group is (roughly) greater than the right group.

Ascher Databook Notes:

This khipu and AS018 are not, to our knowledge, associated, but are given identical numbers SA4034 by the owner.
By spacing there are 2 groups of 5 pendants each.
Both groups have the same color pattern-—-B,W,B,B,B:W.
Represent the value on the pendant in group i at position j by
$V_{i j} w h e r e i = 1, 2; j = 1, 2, . . ., 5$
1. Comparison between groups:
  $V_{1 j} > V_{2 j} f o r j = 1, 3, 4, 5$
2. Comparison within groups:
  $V_{i 1} > V_{i 2} a n d V_{i 1} > V_{i 3} > V_{i 4} > V_{i 5} f o r i = 1, 2$