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Khipu

Groups: A, 7 x B, tassel, 7 x B (A= 8 pendants, B= 4 pendants) Colors: tans, blue Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled Strings: main, pendants, Ply: Diameter: main 3mm, pendants 2-3mm Recto (tying pendant to mainstring): 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 activ ), 8, long knots (S and Z), single knots (Z)

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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 67 cm
Width: 26 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42535

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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