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Khipu

Two fragmented quipus tied together. Or maybe two fragmented pieces of the same quipu ? 1. no. of pendants: ca 48 Groups: 6 x 8 pendants Colors: tans, blue Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled, spliced Strings: main, pendants, secondaries, topstrings Ply: S Diameter: main 3,5mm, pendants and topstrings 1,8 - 2,2mm,secondaries 0,8-2,2mm Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring)??? -as beginning and end of mains cannot be defined. But all the same. Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), 8, long knots (S), single knots (Z) 2. fragment. Like 1. only here are no spliced pendants but there is one spiral secondary.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Länge x Breite: 55 x 16 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47088

Provenance and sources

when
Inca 1450 - 1550
where
Peru
Ica
who
Julius van der Zypen

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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