AS020/KH0021

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

Total Number of Cords: 10
Number of Ascher Cord Colors: 3
Similar Khipu: Previous (UR1099) Next (AS188)
Catalog: AS020
Khipu Notes: Khipu Notes

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Khipu 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:
  $V_{i 1} > V_{i 2} a n d V_{i 1} > V_{i 3} > V_{i 4} > V_{i 5} f o r i = 1, 2$