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Khipu

Groups: irregular. Colours: browns. Colour combinations: monocrome, speckled, spiral Strings: main, pendants, secondaries. Ply: main Z , pendants S Dm: main 2,5mm, pendants 1,8-2,3mm Recto and verso. Knots: end 1/1 and 1/2, long (S and Z), single (Z) NLS 695 a+b are also part of V A 22575: a: 5 x 60 cm Groups: none Colors: browns, blue Colourcombinations: monocrome Strings. Main, pendants Ply: all S Dm: main 2,5mm, pendants 2,5mm Verso 1/2 endknots, Longknots (Z), single knots (S and Z) b:2 x 27-40cm Groups: none Colors: browns,blue Colour combinations: monocrome Strings: Main, pendants, secondaries Ply. all S Dm: main 2,5mm, pendants and secondaries 1,5-2,3mm Verso Endknots 1/1 and !/2, longknots (Z), single knots (Z)

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Cultural attribution
Chancay
Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 36 cm
Width: 9 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 22575

Provenance and sources

Production
when
Inca 1400 - 1550
where
Peru
who
Chancay
Collecting
who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology

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