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Khipu

No. of pendants:8 Groups: none Colors: tans/browns, blue Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled Strings: main, pendants, secondaries Ply: S Diameter: main 2mm, pendants ca 2mm Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring) R and V Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), long knots (Z), single knots (Z) The quipu is tied in a tight circle (ca 1 cm diam.) I have no idea where the extra loose strings were attached.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 75 cm
Width: 1 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47099

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1450 - 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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