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Khipu

Fragment Groups: of 5 pendants + one secondary (same as 42578 c - fragments of same piece?) Colours: white, tans, brown, blue, green Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled Strings: main, pendants, secondaries Ply:all S Diameter: main 2,5mm, pendants and sec. 1,8-2,3mm Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring):fragmented mainstring Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), long knots (S), single knots (Z) 3 "placemarkers" (2 cm pendants without knots)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 75 cm
Width: 11 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42578 b

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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