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Khipu

Narrative? No. of pendants: 21 Groups: 3 (fragmented part), 6, 6, 6 Colors: tans, blue Colour combinations: monochrome, speckled Strings: main, pendants, secondaries Ply: S Diameter: main 5mm, pendants 1,5-2,5mm Verso (tying pendant to mainstring) Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), 8 ( last pendant has two 8 knots over eachother), long knots (Z), single knots (Z). The loose pendants may not be from the same quipu as they seem to be tied to different mainstrings. They could, however, also be secondaries tied to fragmented pendants?

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Length: 37 cm
Width: 6 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47108

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1450 - 1550
    where
    Peru
    Ica
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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