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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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Cataloguing data

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

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Inca 1400 - 1550
    where
    Peru
    Pachacámac
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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