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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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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 25 cm
Width: 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

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1400 - 1550
    where
    Peru
    Pachacámac
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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