Khipu | Photographer: Claudia Obrocki
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Khipu
Groups: 4 x 9pendants Colors: tan, brown, blue Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled Strings: main, pendants, Ply: all S Diameter: main 6mm, pendants 1,8-2,5mm 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 (Z), single knots (Z) Very high numbers - single knots at 4 levels. The quipu is stitched to a canvas stretched to a frame in an earlier concervation.
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Gewicht: < 2 kg
Länge x Breite: 67 x 21 cm
Länge x Breite: 67 x 21 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47083
Provenance and sources
when
Inca 1400 - 1550
where
Peru
Ica
who
Julius van der Zypen
who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
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