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Khipu

No. of pendants:12 , 6 with secondaries Groups: 2 x 6 pendants (one with and one without secondaries) Colors: tans Colour combinations: monochrome Strings: main, pendants, secondaries Ply: S Diameter: main 3,5mm, pendants 2-2,3mm Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring) Hard to tell. The mainstring is closed at both ends. 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), long knots (Z), single knots (Z) At one end of mainstring is a "placemarker" -i.e. a two cm short yarn inserted into the main.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 34 cm
Width: 5 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47124 a

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1450 - 1550
    where
    Peru
    Ica
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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