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Khipu (fragment)

No. of pendants: 45 Groups: irregular Colors: browns, one blue Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled Strings: main, pendants, secondaries (many). Ply: S Diameter: main ??, pendants 1,8-2,5mm Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring) ?? (fragmented at both ends). Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), 8, long knots (S), single knots (Z)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu (fragment)
Dimensions
Length: 47 cm
Width: 10 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47107

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1450 - 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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