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Khipu

Groups: 9, 10x10, 8x 2 Colors: blue, brown Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled Strings: main, pendants, topstring with secondaries? Ply: all S Diameter: main 4mm, pendants 1,5-2mm Recto (tying pendant to mainstring): Knots: single knots 8, longknots (S), single (S). Only 2 complete pendants with 1/1 end knots. Decorative embroidery over the beginning mainstring (1,5 x 5 cm). The width of the mainstring is extended under the embroidery by wrapping. One group has secondaries.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 26,5 cm
Width: 67 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42544

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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