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Khipu

Groups: no repetitive Colors: browns, blue Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled Strings: main, penants, secondaries, tertiaries, topstrings(?) Ply: all S Diameter: main 6 mm, pendants 1,4 - 2 mm Recto (tying pendant to mainstring): (If the two first pendants are topstrings they are verso) Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), 8, long knots (Z), single knots (Z)

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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 43 cm
Width: 38 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 37862

Provenance and sources

Production
when
Inca 1400 - 1550
where
Peru
with Lima
who
Julius van der Zypen
Collecting
who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology

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