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Khipu on a stick with human figures

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Groups: not detectable. Colours: browns. Colour combinations: monocrome. Strings: main, pendants. Ply: all S Dm: pendants 2,3-2,8mm Verso. Knots: long (Z), single (Z), 8 - all pendants are broken so no endknots are left.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu on a stick with human figures
Dimensions
Length: 52 cm
Width: 16,5 cm
Weight: 2 kg
Material/Technique
Cotton, Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 16635

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1400 - 1550
    where
    Peru
    Nazca (Ica)
  • Collecting
    who
    I.M. Bolivar - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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