AK001 - Ascher Decreasing Groups
Drawings:
Ascher Decreasing Group:
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Individual Ascher Decreasing Groups: - Click on column name to sort
| # | Decreasing Group Schema | Group Position 1 Based Index |
# Cords in Group | Decreasing Cord Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 |  | 5 | 6 | W@[5, 1]:68 + W@[5, 2]:81 + YB@[5, 3]:33 + YB@[5, 4]:8 + W:YB:G@[5, 5]:27 + W:YB@[5, 6]:13 |
Khipu 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:
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:
- Appears to be a low-level mostly banded khipu, of good construction.
- Many plied cords, low-magnitude knots/cords, and a predominance of banding indicating a low level khipu.
- 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.