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Khipu

Small fragment. Groups: ? Colors: browns Colour combinations: monochrome Strings: main, pendants, secondaries Ply: all S Diameter: main 3,5mm, pendants 1,5-1,8mm Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring):fragmented main Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot),1/2 endknots (a single knot securing the pendant tied with only part of the pendant as activ ), long knots (S), single knots (S) One secondary is of plantfiber. It has some piece of cotton yarn knotted into its endknot.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Länge x Breite: 25 x 1,5 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton, Plant fibre
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42561 b

Provenance and sources

when
Inca 1400 - 1550
where
Peru
Pachacámac
who
Julius van der Zypen

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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