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Khipu

No of strings: 210 pendants (and 360 secondaries) Groups: 21 x 10 pendants - A,B,A,B,B,A,B (A=3 x 10 pendants) ( B= 4x 10 pendants, each with 2 secondaries) Colors: tans Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled Strings: main, pendants, secondaries Ply: S Diameter: main 5mm, pendants 2-2,5mm Recto (tying pendant to mainstring) Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot) The quipu has no knots (apart from end knots). The last 3 pendants (of a B group) have no secondaries - maybe it is an unfinished quipu.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 40 cm
Width: 66 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 37857

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1450 - 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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