Credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Lena Bjerregaard CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Details (expert)
- Involved
- Dating
- Inka 1450 - 1550Datierung engl.: Inca 1450 - 1550
- Material / Technique
- Baumwolle
- Dimensions
- Länge x Breite: 40 x 66 cm
- Permalink
- https://id.smb.museum/object/34714
Object Description
No of strings: 210 pendants (and 360 secondaries)
Groups: 21 x 10 pendants - A,B,A,B,A,B (A=3 x 10 pendants)
( B= 4x 10 pendants, each with 2 secondaries)
Colors: tans
Color combinations: monochrome, speckled
Strings: main, pendants, secondaries
Ply: S
Diameter: main 5mm, pendants 2-2,5mm
Recto (tying pendant to mainstring)
Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot)
The quipu has no knots (apart from end knots). The last 3 pendants (of a B group) have no secondaries - maybe it is an unfinished quipu.
Last updated: 17.03.2026
Contact
Institution:
Ethnologisches Museum
Email:
em@smb.spk-berlin.de
