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Khipu
Groups: A, 4 x B, top, 5 x B, top, 9 x B, top, 5 x B (A = 19 pendants, B = 9 pendants) Colours: browns, blue, red Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled Strings: main, pendants, topstrings (short: 2 cm: "placemarkers") Ply: all S Diameter: main 3mm, pendants 1,5-2,5mm Recto (tying pendant to mainstring): Knots:1/1 end knots (like a single knot), 8, long knots (S and Z (Z only in last section)), single knots (S)
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Länge x Breite: 55 x 67 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42520
Provenance and sources
when
Inca 1450 - 1550
where
Peru
Pachacámac
who
Julius van der Zypen
who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
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