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Khipu

Groups: 1x10, 1x9, 2x (16 x 10) The quipu starts with two individual groups, and then in the same colour repeats 16 grps. of 10 pendants - some of them with one or two secondaries. Colours: browns, blues. Colour combinations: monocrome, speckled. Strings: main, pendants, secondaries. Ply: all S Dm: main 4mm, pendants and secondaries 1,5-2mm Recto (way of tying the pendants to main) Knots: endknots 1/1, 8, longknots (Z), single knots (Z)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 53 cm
Width: 134,8 cm
Depth: 0,5 cm
Weight: 250 g
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 16148

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1400 - 1550
    where
    Peru
    Ica Pisco
  • Collecting
    who
    I.M. Bolivar - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase 1908
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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