Khipu | Photographer: Lena Bjerregaard
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Khipu
No. of pendants: ca 172 Groups: yes - but as the quipu is in very bad condition with many broken pendants it is hard to state exactly how the groups were. Colors: tans Colour combinations: monochrome Strings: main, pendants, secondaries Ply:S Diameter: main 3mm, pendants 1,5-2mm Recto and verso (tying pendant to mainstring) Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), 8, long knots (Z), single knots (Z) One short place marker right in the middle of the pendants!
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Länge x Breite: 38 x 60 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47071
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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