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Khipu

Groups: 3 groups of different colourcombinations - and one pendant for itself on either side of these 3 groups. Colors: browns,black,blue,green Colour combinations: spliced Strings: main, pendants, Ply: all S Diameter: main 3mm, pendants 2,3-2,5mm Verso (tying pendant to mainstring) Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), one 1/2 endknots( a single knot securing the pendant tied with only part of the pendant as active ), 8, long knots (S), one single knot

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Khipu
Dimensions
Länge x Breite: 60 x 26 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 42553

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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