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Khipu

Groups: A (3 x 7), B (1 x 6) Colours: brown, blue Colour combinations: monochrome, spiral Strings: main, pendants, Ply: main: Z, pendants: S Diameter: main: 5mm, pendants 2,5mm Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring):both Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), 8, long knots (S and Z), single knots (S and Z)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 58 cm
Width: 12 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47117

Provenance and sources

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

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