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Khipu

Groups: irregular Colors: tans Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled, spiral,spliced (one) Strings: main, pendants, secondaries, tertiaries (2) Ply: all S Diameter: pendants 0,9 - 2,7mm Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring):one group of 2 x 4 is opposite to all the others. (as it is a fragmented main, it is not possible to state R/V. 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 (S), single knots (S) 8-knot above long knot. 2 long knots on one strand.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Länge x Breite: 39 x 81,5 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 63039

Provenance and sources

when
Inca 1400 - 1532
where
Peru
Nazca (Ica) (?)

who
Gaffron, Eduard - Collectors

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