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Khipu

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Groups: 17 x A . A=(1 light tan, 1 middle brown). Colours: 3 browns. Colour combinations: monocrome, spliced (3 pcs.) Strings: main, pendants, secondaries, tertiaries Ply: all S Diameter: main 4mm, pendants and seconsaries 2-2,5mm Recto Knots: endknots 1/1 and 1/2, 8, long (Z), single

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 35 cm
Width: 13 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 16143

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1400 - 1550
    where
    Peru
    Ica
    Pisco
  • Collecting
    who
    I.M. Bolivar - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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