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Khipu

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Belongs to basket V A 43330 Groups: 2 groups: A, B Colors: tan, browns Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled, spiral Strings: main, pendants, secondaries Ply: main: Z, pendants: S, secondaries: S + one Z Diameter: main 3,5mm, pendants and secondaries: 1,5-2,5mm Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring): Fragmented main, so not possible to state Knots:long knots (Z), single knots (Z) One single knot is not pulled all the way through,and thus has a loop.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 80 cm
Width: 17 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 43334

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1400 - 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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