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Khipu
Groups: irregular - 8 x 2 - irregular Colours: blue, brown/tans Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled, spiral Strings: main, pendants, secondaries, topstrings Ply: all S Diameter: main 5mm, pendants etc. 2,5-3,5mm Recto/verso (tying pendant to mainstring):Fragmented main Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), 8, long knots (S), single knots (S) Two longknots over each other on two pendants.
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Länge x Breite: 62 x 38 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42617
Provenance and sources
when
Inca 1400 - 1550
where
Peru
Pachacámac
who
Julius van der Zypen
who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
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