Khipu | Photographer: Lena Bjerregaard
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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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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Länge x Breite: 40 x 66 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 37857
Provenance and sources
when
Inca 1450 - 1550
where
Peru
with Lima
who
Julius van der Zypen
who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
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