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Khipu

No. of pendants: 7 Groups: none Colors: brown, tan Colour combinations: pendants: monochrome, main: speckled Strings: main, pendants, Ply: S Diameter: main 2,8mm , pendants 1,8mm Recto (tying pendant to mainstring) Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), 8, long knots (Z), Each pent. has one knot - 4 x 8knot - twice longknot. One pend without knot.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 37 cm
Width: 2 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42588 d

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1450 - 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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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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