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Khipu

Groups: irregular Colors: browns, one red Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled, spiral, spliced Strings: main, pendants, top, secondaries Ply:all S Diameter: main 4mm, pendants 1,8.2,3mm Verso (tying pendant to mainstring): Knots:one 1/1 endknots (like a single knot), long knots (Z), single knots (Z) The quipu is mainly of wool. All pendants are fragmented. At the beginning loop one pendant is tied. To this another pendant is tied with a simple knot with a single knot midway on the pendant - maybe it is another quipu? Too fragmented to decide.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Länge x Breite: 25 x 25 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton, Wool
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42612

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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