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Khipu

No. of pendants: 23 Groups: none Colors: tans, blue Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled, Spiral, spliced Strings: main, pendants, secondaries, tertiaries Ply: S Diameter: main2,5mm, pendants etc. 1,5-4mm The pendants are tied to the main with single knots and cut off as close as possible to the main. At the beginning of the pend. the main is cut and at the end of the pend. the main is tied in a single knot. 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 (Z), single knots (Z) On a number of pend. there are longknots, with the yarn that normally goes on the outside of the windings here going inside the windings. Some pend. has both the normal and this special longknot. All have a single knot under the longknots. A secondary is tied around two pendants - these two pendants also are tied together twice in single knots. Many tertiaries - all in all, a weird quipu.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Länge x Breite: 40 x 6 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42596

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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