Khipu (fragment) | Photographer: Lena Bjerregaard
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Khipu (fragment)
No. of pendants: 5 + 2 loose. All have one secondary (except one loose and the first separate pendant.). Groups: one separate starting pendant - all the next together Colors: tans, blue Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled - top part of all pendants/ secondaries are speckled - lower part monocrome. Makes the Quipu reminiscent of the earliest (Huari) quipus. Strings: main, pendants, secondaries Ply: S Diameter: main 2,5mm, pendants/secondaries 2-2,5mm Recto (tying pendant to mainstring) Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), two long knots (S), single knots (Z)
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Object type
Khipu (fragment)
Dimensions
Länge x Breite: 47 x 3 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42605 b
Provenance and sources
when
Inca 1450 - 1550
where
Peru
Pachacámac
who
Julius van der Zypen
who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
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