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Khipu

Groups: none Colours: cream, light brown, dark brown, blue. Colour combinations: monocrome, speckled. Strings: main, pendants, secondaries, tertiaries. Ply : all S Dm: main 3,5mm, pendants etc.1-3mm Recto/verso cannot be stated, as mainstring fragmented in both ends. Knots: endknot, 8, longknots (S), single knots (S)

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Cultural attribution
Chancay
Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 66 cm
Width: 23 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 22573

Provenance and sources

Production
when
Inca 1400 - 1550
where
Peru
who
Chancay
Collecting
who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology

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