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Khipu

Groups: irregular Colors: 2 browns, blue, beige Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled, spiral Strings: main, pendants, secondaries (many) Ply: main: S, pendants S and one is Z Diameter: main 4,5mm, pendants 2-3mm Recto (tying pendant to mainstring): Knots: 8, long knots and single knots (S and Z) Only the first two pendants have knots.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 68 cm
Width: 34 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42509

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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