AS159/KH0175 - Colored Pendant Sums
Drawings:
Right Handed Sums: # Sums = 10, Max # Summands = 4, (Min, Mean, Max) Sum Values = (16, 21, 49)
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# | Color | Sum Schema | Sum Cord | Sum Cord Value | # Summands | Summands |
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1 | ![]() | p31, 3 : 16W:B | 16 | 4 | p12: 4W:B + p17: 4W:B + p18: 4W:B + p19: 4W:B | |
2 | ![]() | p41, 4 : 16W:B | 16 | 4 | p12: 4W:B + p17: 4W:B + p18: 4W:B + p19: 4W:B | |
3 | ![]() | p71, 7 : 16W:B | 16 | 4 | p12: 4W:B + p17: 4W:B + p18: 4W:B + p19: 4W:B | |
4 | ![]() | p92, 2 : 49B | 49 | 3 | p25: 16B + p26: 16B + p27: 17B | |
5 | ![]() | p103, 1 : 25B | 25 | 3 | p21: 4B + p22: 5B + p24: 16B | |
6 | ![]() | p166, 1 : 25B | 25 | 3 | p21: 4B + p22: 5B + p24: 16B | |
7 | ![]() | p247, 2 : 16B | 16 | 3 | p33: 6B + p34: 3B + p35: 7B | |
8 | ![]() | p257, 3 : 16B | 16 | 3 | p33: 6B + p34: 3B + p35: 7B | |
9 | ![]() | p267, 4 : 16B | 16 | 3 | p33: 6B + p34: 3B + p35: 7B | |
10 | ![]() | p287, 6 : 16B | 16 | 3 | p33: 6B + p34: 3B + p35: 7B |
Khipu Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
- This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1904 with provenance between Ica and Pisco. For a discussion of them, see UR1098.
- By spacing, there are 8 groups with different numbers of pendants. There are much larger spaces on the main cord between groups 6-7 and 7-8 than there are between others. The only consistent colors are in the 3 groups with 7 pendants each (groups 1, 6, and 8). Group 8 is unified: all pendants are B. Groups 1 and 6 both have the pattern X, 4B:W, 2X where X=W in group 1 and X=B in group 6.
- Several of the pendants have multiple unit knots so that there are 2 distinct values in some positions. (See, for example, P14.)
- The value on the first pendant in group 6 is the sum of the other pendants in the group. Similarly, the value on its subsidiary is the sum of the values of the other subsidiaries in the group.
- The sum of the 2 pendant values in group 5 is 100 & 3. The sum of all pendant values in groups 6 and 8 is also 100 & 3.