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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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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Länge x Breite x Tiefe: 53 x 134,8 x 0,5 cm
Gewicht: 250 g
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 16148

Provenance and sources

when
Inca 1400 - 1550
where
Peru
Ica Pisco

who
I.M. Bolivar - Collectors

Description
Purchase 1908

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