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Khipu

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Groups: 4 groups: A,B,C,D. Colors: different tans/browns Colour combinations: monochrome Strings: main, pendants, Ply:all S Diameter: main 3mm, pendants 1-1,8mm 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), 8, long knots (S), single knots (S) The first secondary has a Z knot.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 61 cm
Width: 8 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42614

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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