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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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Cataloguing data

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

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1400 - 1550
    where
    Peru
    Pachacámac
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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