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Khipu

No. of pendants:14 + 5 Groups: 2 groups of 7 pendants. Another quipu with 5 pendants is tied into the main 5 cm from start....or is it a very thick pendant with secondaries?? Colors: tans Colour combinations:pendants monochrome, main cord speckled Strings: main, pendants, Ply:S Diameter: main 3,5mm, pendants 1,8-2mm Recto (tying pendant to mainstring) 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), long knots (S), single knots (Z)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 47 cm
Width: 6 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42601

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1450 - 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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