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Khipu

Colours: browns - and two red and blue spotted over a few cm (spliced in). Colour combinations: spiral, monocrome, speckled, spliced. Strings: main (fragment), pendants, secondaries, top. Ply: all S Dm: 1,3-2,5 mm (pendant) Fragment without beginning or end, so recto/verso can not be stated. Knots: end, 8, long (Z), single (Z). 3 pendants are tied together midway by one of the pendants.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 60 cm
Width: 7 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 1218
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1400 - 1550
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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