AS092/KH0105

Original Author: Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum: Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich, Germany
Museum Number: G3306
Provenance: Unknown
Region: Peru

Total Number of Cords: 56
Number of Ascher Cord Colors: 3
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Catalog: AS092
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Ascher Databook Notes:

AS087, AS089, AS090/N2, AS092, AS093, AS094 are associates in that the Museum designates them all as donated by Gaffron, and gives the provenance as Peru. For a comparison of them, see AS087.
By spacing, AS092 is separated into 10 groups. The first 8 groups each have 6 pendants with the same color pattern (W, MB, MB:W, W, W, W).
In all 10 groups, the first pendant has the maximum value.
Position by position, the pendant values in group 1 are larger than those in group 4, which are larger than those in group 3, which are larger than those in group 2. That is:

$P_{1 i} > P_{4 i} > P_{3 i} > P_{2 i} f o r i = (2, 3, 4, . . ., 8)$
In a few cases, the sums of values in the same position in pairs of consecutive groups are equal. Namely:

$P_{4 i} + P_{5 i} = P_{6 i} + P_{7 i} f o r i = (1, 4)$

$P_{2 i} + P_{3 i} = P_{6 i} + P_{7 i} f o r i = (4, 6)$