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Khipu

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Groups: 4 monochrome groups, then 4 groups with spiral pendants. Colors: tans, blue, one brown Colour combinations: monochrome, spiral Strings: main, pendants, Ply:S Diameter: main, pendants 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 ( Z)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 65 cm
Width: 30 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42533

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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