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Khipu

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Maybe not a complete quipu, as the "mainstring" has knots. Could be a pendant with secondaries? Groups: none Colors: brown, tan Colour combinations: monochrome Strings: main (with knots), pendants, Ply: all S Diameter: main, pendants Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring): Knots:1/1 end knots (like a single knot), 8, long knots (Z), single knots

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 43 cm
Width: 1 cm
Material/Technique
Camelid hair
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 37876 a

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1400 - 1550
    where
    Peru
    Lima
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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