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Khipu
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The quipu is too fragile to be unwrapped - the mainstring is dissolved and the pendants loose. Groups: ? Colors: browns, blue Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled Strings: main, pendants, Ply: main: Z, Pendants S Diameter: main 3,5mm, pendants1,5-2mm Recto (tying pendant to mainstring) Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), 8, long knots (S), single knots (Z)

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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Länge x Breite: 50 x 12 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42539

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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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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