Credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Photographer CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Details (expert)
- Involved
- Dating
- Inka 1400 - 1550
- Geographical references
- Material / Technique
- Baumwolle
- Dimensions
- Länge x Breite: 50 x 12 cm
- Permalink
- https://id.smb.museum/object/39396
Object Description
The quipu is too fragile to be unwrapped - the mainstring is dissolved and the pendants loose.
Groups: ?
Colors: browns, blue
Color combinations: monochrome, speckled
Strings: main, pendants,
Ply: main: Z, Pendants S
Diameter: main 3,5mm, pendants1,5-2mm
Recto (tying pendant to mainstring)
Knots:1/1 endknots (like a single knot), 8, long knots (S), single knots (Z)
Last updated: 17.03.2026
Contact
Institution:
Ethnologisches Museum
Email:
em@smb.spk-berlin.de
