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Khipu

Groups: 14 x A. ( A=9 pendants) Colors: browns, and camelid hair: yellow and red Colour combinations: monochrome, spiral Strings: main, pendants, secondaries Ply: all S Diameter: main 3,5mm, pendants 1,5-2 mm Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring): recto 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) Extra description in German: Due to its poor condition (many completely charred threads), the Quipu has many broken loose threads that cannot be precisely assigned. The Quipu has 9 eight-knots. 7 of these have a short (approx. 1 cm with 1/1 end knot) 2 ply S thread knotted in. 5 of them have a 9 long knot above them, one has an 8 long knot and one has a simple knot. Between the 4th and 5th group two tiny 2 S wool threads (red and yellow) are knotted around the mainstring.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Länge x Breite: 50 x 35 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton, Hair (camelids)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42537

Provenance and sources

when
Inca 1400 - 1550
where
Peru
Pachacámac
who
Julius van der Zypen

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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