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Khipu

Groups: 12 brown "8 beige, 8-9 browns" x 12 Colors: Beige (light tan), brown Colour combinations: monochrome Strings: main, pendants, secondaries Ply: all S Diameter: main 4,5mm, pendants 2-2,5 mm 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)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 47 cm
Width: 46 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 63043

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1450 - 1550
    where
    Peru
    Nazca (Ica)
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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