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Khipu

Groups: A, B, A (A = 21 x 5, B= 3 x 5) Each group of 5 consists of green, blue, tan, brown, white pendants always in the same order. The browns and the whites have each one secondary of the same colour, and sometimes more secondaries and tertiaries of other colour combinations (spoeckled and spiral) Colors: browns, blue, green Color combinations: monochrome, speckled, spiral, spliced Strings: main, pendants, secondaries, tertiaries Ply: all S Diameter: main 2,8mm, pendants etc. 1,2-2,8mm Verso (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 and Z), single knots (Z) Main cord is broken at the start of the quipu, so it may be a fragment of a larger quipu.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Länge x Breite: 90 x 83 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42518

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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