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Khipu

Groups: irregular Colors: 2 browns Colour combinations: monochrome Strings: main, pendants, Ply: all S Diameter: main 4mm, pendants 1,8-2,5mm Verso (tying pendant to mainstring) 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 active), 8, long knots (S), single knots (S)

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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 40 cm
Width: 9 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47112

Provenance and sources

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

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