Khipu | Photographer: Lena Bjerregaard
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Khipu
No. of pendants:18 Groups: 2 x 9 pendants Colours: one group light tan, other group reddish. Colour combinations: monochrome Strings: main, pendants, Ply: S Diameter: main 2,5mm, pendants 1,5- 1,8mm Recto/verso (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 active), 8, long knots (Z)
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Länge x Breite: 49 x 4 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 37875
Provenance and sources
when
Inca 1450 - 1550
where
Peru
with Lima
who
Julius van der Zypen
who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
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