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Khipu

Fragment. Camelid hair and 2 strings of cotton. Groups: yes - un-repetitive Colours: brown, white, tan, blue, red and yellow Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled Strings: main, pendants, secondaries, topstrings Ply: all S Diameter: main, pendants 1,5-3mm Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring): Fragment, so not possible to state 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) Short woolen yarns /ca 2 cm) in red, yellow and white tied into some of the 8-knots. The quipu has 8-knots over longknots and several longknots and 8-knots over each other (4). This quipu may be a fragment of V A 42579 (main string very similar).

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Länge x Breite: 47 x 7 cm
Material/Technique
Camelid wool
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42571

Provenance and sources

when
Inca 1400 - 1550
where
Peru
Pachacámac
who
Julius van der Zypen

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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