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Khipu

Groups: irregular Colors: tans, blue Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled Strings: main, pendants, Ply: main Z, pendants S Diameter: main 6mm, pendants 2,3mm Recto (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), longknots ( Z), single knots (Z)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Chancay
Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Weight: 2 kg
Length: 58 cm
Width: 21 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 22572

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1400 - 1550
    where
    Peru
    who
    Chancay
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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