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Khipu

Groups: 2 pendants, 1 pendant, 2 pendants, 2 x A, 7xB, tassel, 7 x B (A= 15 pendants w. one spliced and one secondary) (B= 14 pendants with 1-2 secondaries and one spliced) Colors: browns, blue, red Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled, spiral and spliced (over 5-10 cm in the centre of pendant) Strings: main, pendants, secondaries Ply: all S Diameter: main 3,5 mm, pendants 1,2 - 2,5mm, secondaries 1,5-2mm Recto (tying pendant to mainstring) Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), 8, long knots (Z), single knots (Z)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 86 cm
Width: 62 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42523

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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